Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them. - Maxwell Perkins

Writing long sentences is like adding water to tea; the more words, the weaker the message. - Diana Booher

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. - Jonathan Culver

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they’re writing nice sentences, even if it isn’t adding up to much. - James Patterson

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don’t know how to write sentences. - Tom Robbins

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock. - B.J. Chute

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. - Lynne Truss

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. - Mark Twain

The beauty of type lies in its utility; prettiness without readability serves neither the author nor the reader. - James Felici

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. - John H. McWhorter