Belief Quote by Beryl Bainbridge

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose…

— Gertrude Stein

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any…

— Lynne Tillman

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public…

— Trevor Paglen

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking…

— Steven Gundry