The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people… — 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
I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often… — 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
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The way people behave towards each other is a measure of their value as human beings. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we… — 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
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
