Academic Quote by Charlie Day

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 am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

— Dorothy Kilgallen

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm…

— Lynn Abbey

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with…

— Mitch Albom

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

“Growing up with well-educated parents and an older sister with her Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature, I was left with little wiggle…

— Susan C. Young

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing.…

— Vito Acconci

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

— Maurice Saatchi

I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted down things…

— Susie Dent

I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.

— Amanda Gorman

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day