Grammatical Quotes

“If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.”

“If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.”

“Lovemaking is a big grammatical error, i think it should be, LustMaking.”

“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.”

“An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.”

“To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.”

“We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.”

“The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.”

“We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.”

“So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people.”

“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”