Belong Quote by E. L. Doctorow

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

— John Clare

On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are…

— Bill Walsh

“I suppose this is a trivial matter but I do want to object to the maddening fuss-fidget punctuation which one of your editors is…

— Edward Abbey

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

I hate commas in the wrong places.

— Walt Whitman

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

— Pamela Frankau

“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 don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might…

— John Edgar Wideman

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration…

— Catherine Brady

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go…

— Lewis Thomas

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

— Brian P. Cleary