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Punctuation Quotes by Lynne Truss
- The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
- Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
- As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible…
- Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
- To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
- Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his…
- The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have…
- Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.
- I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is…
- The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or…
- We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;…
- To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of…
- In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed…
- Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive…
More Punctuation Quotes
- I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali
- Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the… — Julie Burchill
- The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — 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… — Annie Dillard
- My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway
- Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call… — Unknown Author
- 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… — Unknown Author
- It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example… — 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… — Unknown Author
- The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle
- People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.… — David Duchovny