Experience Quote by Claire Messud

“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.”

— 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 thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

— Brian P. Cleary

“I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons” – and although I…

— Lynne Truss

“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a…

— Victor Klemperer

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

You don't know what a semi-colon does... sort of like my act.

— Rob Cantrell

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A semi-colon is used when a sentence could have been ended; But it wasn't.

— Ramandeep Singh

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I…

— Abraham Lincoln