I like this, from an interview with Donna Tartt: In a note to a copy editor during the editing of The Goldfinch via publisher, Little, Brown Tartt wrote: I am terribly troubled by the ever-growing tendency to standardized and prescriptive usage, and I think that the Twentieth century, American-invented conventions of House Rules and House Style, to say nothing of automatic computer functions like Spellcheck and AutoCorrect, have exacted an abrasive, narrowing, and destructive effect on the way writers use language and ultimately on the language itself.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:38:31 +0000