“Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: “I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss Copy Share
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
“Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. — Lynne Truss Copy Share
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share
“one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time;… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day. — Lynne Truss Copy Share
“For the first time since she met him, she asked herself whether mr Dodgson was really the sunny personality she had at first imagined.… — Lynne Truss Copy Share
“All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share
