“And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'.” — Mia Castile Copy Share Image
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
“He uses proper punctuation. Capitalizes the beginning of each sentence.” — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss 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
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and… — Mina P. Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation.… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want… — Isaac Marion 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
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly.… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path… — Lewis Thomas 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
“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
Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
