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
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.” — Red Red Rover Copy Share Image
“He also knows that a gun can’t protect you unless you protect yourself mentally, emotionally, and logically. It’s the punctuation at the… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat,… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“A run-on sentence is when we fuse two or more sentences together without using any punctuation to separate them. For example: I… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons” – and… — Lynne Truss 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
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the… — Tom Wolfe 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
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Why is a period used to end a sentence? To remind us that even the SMALLEST DETAIL CAN END EVERYTHING. — Jhay Babista Copy Share Image
“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places...” — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
A semi-colon is used when a sentence could have been ended; But it wasn't. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“He used three exclamation points? That kind of irresponsible punctuation must mean something's up.” — Kerry Winfrey Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals? — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
