Books Quote by Michael Crichton

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

— James J. Kilpatrick

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

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

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the…

— Delphine de Vigan

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the…

— Beryl Bainbridge