Exclamation Quote by Elmore Leonard

Keep your exclamation points under control!

— Henry Miller

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

— Sark

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

— Mark Twain

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

— Anonymous

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one…

— Tom Wolfe

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too…

— Jonathan Ames

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

— Faith Salie

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a…

— Bertrand Russell

“Love the overuse of exclamation points!!!! Yes!!! They add a lot of emphasis!!! to what your character is saying!!!”

— L.R.W. Lee

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is…

— Lewis Thomas

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,…

— John Ruskin