Lynne Truss

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my…

— Lynne Truss

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately,…

— Lynne Truss

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…

— Lynne Truss

“To those of us accustomed to newspaper headlines, 'PIZZAS' in inverted commas suggests these might be pizzas, but nobody's promising anything, and…

— Lynne Truss

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

— Lynne Truss

Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive,…

— Lynne Truss

“If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put…

— Lynne Truss

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is…

— Lynne Truss

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to…

— Lynne Truss

“Oh yes, sir. There's no doubt about it, sir. The Punctuation Murderer has struck again.”

— Lynne Truss

“Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed…

— Lynne Truss

“Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels?”

— Lynne Truss

“That's why they came up with the emoticon, too—the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it)…

— Lynne Truss

“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For…

— Lynne Truss

No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often…

— Lynne Truss

“Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the…

— Lynne Truss

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…

— Lynne Truss

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

— Lynne Truss

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to…

— Lynne Truss

It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of…

— Lynne Truss

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and…

— Lynne Truss

...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned…

— Lynne Truss

“the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full…

— Lynne Truss

“I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a…

— Lynne Truss