Bad grammar Quote by Robert Lane Greene

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp…

— Geoffrey Pullum

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

— Mason Cooley

“The mistake people make,” Bingle said, “is thinking that there are different styles.” “All right.” “Force, balance, leverage, momentum—these principles never change. They are…

— Lev Grossman

“Strunk was born in 1869, and today’s writers cannot base their craft exclusively on the advice of a man who developed his sense of…

— Steven Pinker

“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.”

— Jeri Parker

“A style of this sort will seem to modern readers marred by classical stiffness--"Truth," "Knowers," "the Good," "Man"--but we can by no means deny…

— Saul Bellow

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

— Cornel West

“Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of etymology sometimes…

— George Eliot

“Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in…

— Jane Austen