Quotes by : Roy Peter Clark

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly....

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as....

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through....

But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can....