Aesthetic Quote by John H. McWhorter

When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The…

— Steven Pinker

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities…

— N. Scott Momaday

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

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

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky…

— Richard Corliss

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

Proper grammar is attractive.

— Anonymous

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off…

— Brenda Ueland

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

— Stephen King

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

— Anonymous

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken…

— Muriel Barbery