Lynne Truss

The rule is: dont use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

— Lynne Truss

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

— Lynne Truss

“nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.”

— Lynne Truss

“No valentines from the cats again.”

— Lynne Truss

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

— Lynne Truss

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

— Lynne Truss

“I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.”

— Lynne Truss

“L'insulto é l'arma del debole.”

— Lynne Truss

“Oh yes, sir. There's no doubt about it, sir. The Punctuation Murderer has struck again.”

— Lynne Truss

“All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.”

— Lynne Truss

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

— Lynne Truss

“Once someone has shown you a convincingly different way of looking at the world, it's hard to remember how you saw it…

— Lynne Truss

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

— Lynne Truss

“Wait for it,' the single dash seems to whisper, with a twinkle if you're lucky.”

— Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my…

— Lynne Truss

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they…

— Lynne Truss

“If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be…

— Lynne Truss

“That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year…

— Lynne Truss

Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square…

— Lynne Truss

“On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells…

— Lynne Truss

“we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated…

— Lynne Truss

It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little…

— Lynne Truss

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the…

— Lynne Truss

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the…

— Lynne Truss

I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified.…

— Lynne Truss

“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

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the…

— Lynne Truss

“We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's…

— Lynne Truss

It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of…

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“...by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal under-educating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people…

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“For the first time since she met him, she asked herself whether mr Dodgson was really the sunny personality she had at…

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Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that…

— Lynne Truss

“Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While…

— Lynne Truss

“Yes, you can see the bullet points here, here and here, sir; there are multiple back-slashes, of course. And that’s a forward…

— Lynne Truss

Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive,…

— Lynne Truss

“There is an old German fable about porcupines who need to huddle together for warmth, but are in danger of hurting each…

— Lynne Truss

“Clicking on "send" has its limitations as a system of subtle communication. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes…

— Lynne Truss

“the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full…

— Lynne Truss