Grammar is The Forbidden City of American writing.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and…

— Jasper Fforde

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

— Jennifer Hudson

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it…

— Joan Halifax

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of…

— Jodi Picoult

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she…

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Spell check bails me out on the constant.

— Daniel Yvars

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

— Margaret Thatcher

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are…

— Dave McKean

“Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved…

— R.L. Trask

I wish those red, squiggly spellcheck lines would show up when some people talk.

— Anonymous

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better…

— Anonymous

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and…

— Mary Norris

“I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.”

— Keith Waterhouse

Hey autocorrect, stop messing with my damn curse words. You mother forklift.

— Anonymous