Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use… — Julie James Copy Share Image
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early… — Mary O'Neill Copy Share Image
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
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