Punctuation Quotes

98 quotes by 79 authors

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming… — Mario Batali
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to… — Julie Burchill
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power! — Nicola Morgan
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the… — Lindley Murray
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is… — Bergen Evans
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a… — Mina P. Shaughnessy
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation,… — Victor LaValle
Peopleâ€¦ they donâ€™t write anymore â€“ they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it… — David Duchovny
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did… — John Humphrys
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you… — Robert Frost
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. — Abbas Kiarostami
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. — Lynne Truss
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds… — Ben Marcus
But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to… — Robert Ruark

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