Book Quote by Noam Chomsky

I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public…

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Joan Didion

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

“Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.”

— Bertrand Russell

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

— Joan Didion

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Ben Aaronovitch

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

— Michael Crichton

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

— Hugh Gaitskell

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