Cameras Quote by Joan Didion

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All…

— Joan Didion

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

— Susan Howe

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was…

— Joan Didion

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles…

— Eli Roth

Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other…

— Sol Stein

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but…

— Anonymous

Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and…

— John McCain

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have…

— Louis Begley

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say…

— Susan Orlean

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his…

— Dick Cavett

“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in…

— Norman O. Brown