Quote by Christopher Higgs

“I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word.”

— M. Pierce

“The slalom race of syntax!”

— Laurent Binet

“To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get…

— Jasper Fforde

“... failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...”

— Thomas Pynchon

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Perhaps, in this, as with everything else, because I didn't know how to speak in code, I didn't know how to speak at all.”

— André Aciman

“And who would have ever thought we'd see a time when the period – the building block of our very language, punctuation-wise – would…

— Emmy Favilla

“There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I”

— Connie Willis

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I would rather say that I messed something up, than that I was to afraid to try!”

— D.M. Pariso