Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, And The Politics Of Identity Quotes

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.