23 could just as easily be 25…or 10.

Some of these quotes hit pretty close to home…never read any of her stuff but I will have to fix that.

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

You get the sense that it’s possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them down and that this is OK, it’s worth doing. That the seemingly insignificant things that most of us spend our days noticing are really significant, have meaning, and tell us something.

This is something I have realized also, though not expressed nearly as well: we don’t teach grammar anymore anyway, we simply correct usage.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.