June Casagrande Quotes

#1. Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how - if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas - it will show.

June Casagrande

#2. You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a solemn oath.

June Casagrande

#3. As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation.

June Casagrande

#4. This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!

Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.

June Casagrande

#5. Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists--they're everywhere, they're all to eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.

June Casagrande

#6. For Whom the Snob Trolls

June Casagrande

#7. Is that a dangler in your memo or are you just glad to see me?

June Casagrande

#8. He needed to "kill his darlings" - Stephen King's favorite term for letting go of stuff that just doesn't work.

June Casagrande

#9. Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.

June Casagrande