Humor Quote by Adam Roberts

“Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills.”

— Chandan Sharma

“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out…

— Raymond Carver

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I…

— E. L. Doctorow

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

— Mark Helprin

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

“Isn't it odd, the attractiveness of type and paper and ink, bodying thoughts and descriptions? Isn't it odd how much the sight can teach…

— Anonymous