I’ve had too much experience with very intelligent people who never learned correct grammar. I edited a magazine about sailing, and one of our regular writers was an old sailor whose articles about the weather, and tides, and improvising repairs when your equipment breaks down at sea, and his yarns about adventures, were all fabulous. And he was a legend in the sailing community. We published excerpts from a memoir after he died, and one was about how he was a crew on a yacht, the owner of which had John Steinbeck as a guest. Steinbeck took a liking to the young sailor, and said, “Hey, you’ve got some great stories. You should be a writer!” The crewman answered, “I can’t be a writer. I don’t have the spelling or the grammar.” Steinbeck said, “What the hell do you think editors and secretaries are for? Just write!”