From Chapter 7, WRITERS ARE READERS... page 97 of WRITING FOR THE SOUL, by Jerry B. Jenkins, well known Christian author of the Left Behind series. author of about 150 books.
"I was raised by a crossword-puzzling, poetic father and an anagramming, word-loving, Latin-knowing, grammarian mother. My two older brothers are smart and were good students, so I learned to speak and write correctly by osmosis, which frustrated my English teachers to no end. I could pick out the correct sentence, but I couldn't say why it was better than the poor example - it just sounded right. The right one sounded the way my mother spoke."
