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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I hate commas in the wrong places.

— Walt Whitman

“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

“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

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

— Mark Helprin

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

— Truman Capote

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

— Mary Norris

“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.”

— Rabih Alameddine

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save…

— Bill Walsh

“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said…

— John Updike

“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing…

— Adam Roberts

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