| Consider Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and J. M. Barrie: the stammerer with the camera, the wandering epileptic, and the coughing frequenter of playgrounds. |
| On one painful occasion, however, I became the victim of an aggressive stammerer I sought to impress. |
| Not being a stammerer in one's speech, but being a stammerer of language itself. |
| You become a stammerer with a barely discernible stammer. |
| This is what it is like to be at the mercy of an affliction, to be defined as a stammerer by oneself and others and to feel it as the core of your identity. |
| Machado de Assis, born in 1839, of mixed race, epileptic, a stammerer, who, despite early poverty, mastered French and English, translated Shakespeare and poured out stories, novels and poetry. |
