Simon Winchester Quotes
born 1944 United States
Simon Winchester OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist.
- United States
- Journalists
- Non-fiction authors
- Novelists
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There should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)
Other dictionaries in other languages took longer to make; but none was greater, grander, or had more authority than this. The greatest effort since the invention of printing. The longest sensational serial ever written.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)
The main purpose of the pages that follow is to consider what might be called the physiology and the physics of the country, the strands of connective tissue that have allowed it to achieve all it has, and yet to keep itself together while doing so.
The Men who United the States (2013)
The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today—Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia—even though the part that the very similar accidents of geology and river behavior played in their origins may have been long forgotten.
The Men who United the States (2013)