Funny Quote by Jack Kerouac

“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”

— Elmore Leonard

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without…

— Jack Kerouac

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

— Amos Bronson Alcott

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

— Alejandro Zambra

“In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and retention improves.”

— Peter C. Brown

“Grammar and structure are speed breakers that impede thought.”

— Haresh Sippy

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

“Avoid pompous words and fancy phrases.”

— Robert W. Bly

“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The passive voice…

— William Safire

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter