“Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.”

“You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.”

“Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.”

“So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.”

“Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?”

“The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”