Top 10 Eley Williams Quotes (2024 Update)

Eley Williams Quote: “Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard.”

1. “Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard.”

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Eley Williams Quote: “The thought became clear and clean: it would take just some small strokes of pen to transfer these doodled drafts onto the official blue index cards and he could pepper the dictionary with false entries. Thousands of them – cuckoos-in-the-nest, changeling words, easily overlooked mistakes. He could define parts of the world that only he could see or for which he felt responsible.”

2. “The thought became clear and clean: it would take just some small strokes of pen to transfer these doodled drafts onto the official blue index cards and he could pepper the dictionary with false entries. Thousands of them – cuckoos-in-the-nest, changeling words, easily overlooked mistakes. He could define parts of the world that only he could see or for which he felt responsible.”

— Eley Williams

Eley Williams Quote: “With its symmetry and little dashed isthmus between the two words, ‘hour-glass’ on the page is like the object itself, lying on its side or balanced mid-spin.”

3. “With its symmetry and little dashed isthmus between the two words, ‘hour-glass’ on the page is like the object itself, lying on its side or balanced mid-spin.”

— Eley Williams

Eley Williams Quote: “Every other author may aspire to praise... the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.”

4. “Every other author may aspire to praise... the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.”

— Eley Williams

Eley Williams Quote: “I demand, in the words of Hippocrates, to be fed eclairs and served hot tea, before the day proves all too much.”

5. “I demand, in the words of Hippocrates, to be fed eclairs and served hot tea, before the day proves all too much.”

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Eley Williams Quote: “He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts.”

6. “He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts.”

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Eley Williams Quote: “A freakish weed is just a flower that has not asked permission.”

7. “A freakish weed is just a flower that has not asked permission.”

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Eley Williams Quote: “The dictionary’s title would be stamped in gold across the spine. Its paper would have a pleasing creaminess and weight, with a typeface implying elegance, an undeniably suave firmness or firm suaveness. A typeface that would be played by Jeremy Brett or Romaine Brooks – a typeface with cheekbones.”

8. “The dictionary’s title would be stamped in gold across the spine. Its paper would have a pleasing creaminess and weight, with a typeface implying elegance, an undeniably suave firmness or firm suaveness. A typeface that would be played by Jeremy Brett or Romaine Brooks – a typeface with cheekbones.”

— Eley Williams

Eley Williams Quote: “Conversation as meaningful and entirely wonderful precisely because it means nothing, except to the two people involved.”

9. “Conversation as meaningful and entirely wonderful precisely because it means nothing, except to the two people involved.”

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Eley Williams Quote: “Should a preface pose more questions than it answers? Should a preface just pose?”

10. “Should a preface pose more questions than it answers? Should a preface just pose?”

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Eley Williams Quote: “Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature.”

11. “Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature.”

— Eley Williams

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