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title: "Best Punctuation Sayings"
description: "Browse 287 Punctuation quotes by 198 authors. Discover the best Punctuation sayings and thoughts."
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> [Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-truss/punctuation-marks-are-the-traffic-signals-of-language-they-tell-us-to/)

[Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-truss/)

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> [Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muriel-rukeyser/punctuation-is-biological-it-is-the-physical-indication-of-the-body/)

[Muriel Rukeyser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muriel-rukeyser/)

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> [You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/you-practically-do-not-use-semicolons-at-all-this-is-a-symptom-of/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/why-mrs-piper-has-a-good-deal-to-say-chiefly-in-parentheses-and/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brautigan/the-time-is-right-to-mix-sentences-with-dirt-and-the-sun-with/)

[Richard Brautigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brautigan/)

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> [Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-victor-paskavich/punctuation-is-over-rated-a-fly-on-the-page-of-the-book-can-change-it/)

[Stanley Victor Paskavich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-victor-paskavich/)

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> [“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelli-jae-baeli/faulkner-had-an-egg-carton-filled-with-periods-and-throughout-his/)

[Kelli Jae Baeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelli-jae-baeli/)

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> [“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/red-red-rover/apparently-my-hopes-dreams-and-aspirations-were-no-match-against-my/)

[Red Red Rover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/red-red-rover/)

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> [“He also knows that a gun can’t protect you unless you protect yourself mentally, emotionally, and logically. It’s the punctuation at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-caine/he-also-knows-that-a-gun-can-t-protect-you-unless-you-protect/)

[Rachel Caine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-caine/)

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> [Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kendrick-lamar/every-time-i-write-these-words-they-become-a-taboo-making-sure-my/)

[Kendrick Lamar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kendrick-lamar/)

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> [“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-conrad/i-was-a-near-grown-man-sat-in-his-dank-dark-and-rickety-digs/)

[Tom Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-conrad/)

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> [“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/june-casagrande/as-you-can-see-the-hyphen-is-a-nasty-tricky-evil-little-mark-that/)

[June Casagrande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/june-casagrande/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/the-comma-if-it-s-left-out-sometimes-can-be-a-problem-there-s-a/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

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> [The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/the-writer-who-neglects-punctuation-or-mispunctuates-is-liable-to-be/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-sand/punctuation-has-its-own-philosophy-just-as-style-does-although-not-as/)

[George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-sand/)

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> [Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bergen/bin-laden-s-death-is-just-a-punctuation-point-on-a-set-of-problems/)

[Peter Bergen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bergen/)

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> [“A run-on sentence is when we fuse two or more sentences together without using any punctuation to separate them. For example: I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-baranick/a-run-on-sentence-is-when-we-fuse-two-or-more-sentences-together/)

[Jenny Baranick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-baranick/)

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> [It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-humphrys/it-is-the-relentless-onward-march-of-the-texters-the-sms-short/)

[John Humphrys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-humphrys/)

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> [“I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons” – and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-truss/i-have-been-told-that-the-dying-words-of-one-famous-20th-century/)

[Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-truss/)

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> [There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-bashevis-singer/there-are-500-reasons-i-write-for-children-children-read-books-not/)

[Isaac Bashevis Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-bashevis-singer/)

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> [I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-wolfe/i-used-to-enjoy-using-dots-where-they-would-be-least-expected-not-at/)

[Tom Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-wolfe/)

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> [Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/lexical-variety-eccentric-constructions-and-punctuation-variant/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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> [The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-rooney/the-one-affectation-i-have-forced-on-the-publisher-are-my-apostrophe/)

[Andy Rooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-rooney/)

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> [In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-thompson/in-lots-of-books-i-read-the-writer-seems-to-go-haywire-every-time-he/)

[Jim Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-thompson/)

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> [Why is a period used to end a sentence? To remind us that even the SMALLEST DETAIL CAN END EVERYTHING.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jhay-babista/why-is-a-period-used-to-end-a-sentence-to-remind-us-that-even-the/)

[Jhay Babista](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jhay-babista/)

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> [Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/why-if-there-is-alphabet-soup-do-we-not-have-punctuation-cereal/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

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> [“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-carver/that-s-all-we-have-finally-the-words-and-they-had-better-be-the-right-2/)

[Raymond Carver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-carver/)

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> [A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-strunk-jr/a-dash-is-a-mark-of-separation-stronger-than-a-comma-less-formal-than/)

[William Strunk, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-strunk-jr/)

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> [A semi-colon is used when a sentence could have been ended; But it wasn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramandeep-singh/a-semi-colon-is-used-when-a-sentence-could-have-been-ended-but-it/)

[Ramandeep Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramandeep-singh/)

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> [The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-truss/the-reason-to-stand-up-for-punctuation-is-that-without-it-there-is-no/)

[Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-truss/)

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> [“He used three exclamation points? That kind of irresponsible punctuation must mean something's up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerry-winfrey/he-used-three-exclamation-points-that-kind-of-irresponsible/)

[Kerry Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerry-winfrey/)

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> [In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/in-writing-punctuation-plays-the-role-of-body-language-it-helps/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

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> [I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-p-cleary/i-love-the-semicolon-it-s-unnecessary-but-graceful-and-sophisticated/)

[Brian P. Cleary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-p-cleary/)

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> [No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-rooney/no-matter-what-any-of-the-grammar-teachers-say-punctuation-is-an/)

[Andy Rooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-rooney/)

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> [“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/my-war-on-commas-they-are-a-pestilence-they-must-be-stopped/)

[Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/)

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> [Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-truss/punctuation-is-a-courtesy-designed-to-help-readers-to-understand-a/)

[Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-truss/)

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> [I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-cowell/i-still-put-punctuation-in-my-texts-if-it-s-an-i-i-make-sure-it-s-a/)

[Simon Cowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-cowell/)

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> [They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-bashevis-singer/they-still-believe-in-god-the-family-angels-witches-goblins-logic/)

[Isaac Bashevis Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-bashevis-singer/)

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> [I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainbow-rowell/i-might-not-use-capital-letters-but-i-would-definitely-use-an/)

[Rainbow Rowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainbow-rowell/)

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> [I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-mcconaughey/i-work-through-life-with-commas-i-don-t-even-know-do-you-have/)

[Matthew McConaughey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-mcconaughey/)

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                        "text": "Why is a period used to end a sentence? To remind us that even the SMALLEST DETAIL CAN END EVERYTHING.",
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                        "text": "Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?",
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                        "text": "A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.",
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