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I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.