Language Quote by M. Pierce

“He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences could contain…

— Deborah Crombie

“Simon winced as the man fought for words. He didn't appear to be stuttering so much as emotionally overcome, but it was never pleasant…

— Julia Quinn

“His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.”

— Robert Lane Greene

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

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

— M. Pierce

“He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine,…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“He only had the imperfect medium of words.”

— Sara Gruen

“When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before the capital…

— Nicole Krauss

“I'm an Author, not a Grammarist!”

— T.R. Patrick

“I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's report writing--when…

— Jeff Lindsay