Veronica

“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”
― John Green

“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

“Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn’t first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.”
― Linda Francis Lee, The Glass Kitchen