Patricia T. O'Conner

“With grammar, it’s always something.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's,…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down…

— Patricia T. O'Conner