Grammatical Precision Quotes

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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