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Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
— Laura Kreitzer
We went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
— Samuel Colbran
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
— Muriel Barbery
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
— Buffy Andrews
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
— Arthur Plotnik
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
— Elsie De Wolfe
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
— E.B. White
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
— Beryl Bainbridge
When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.
— Pierre Omidyar
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
— Terry Pratchett
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.
— Jonathan Heatt
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
— Walter Payton
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean "More people died" don't say "Mortality rose.
— C.S. Lewis
We're always our own villains in the end. Which makes them easy to defeat, once we're ready to admit we were the only ones in our own way.
— Heidi Cullinan
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
— Baltasar Gracian
I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon
Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.
— A.A. Patawaran
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
— John Lubbock
Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
— Mark Twain
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
Grammar is the analysis of language.
— Edgar Allan Poe