Paper Quote by Faith Salie

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

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

— Mark Twain

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a…

— Miles Kington

“An excessive use of exclamation marks is a certain indication of an unpractised writer or of one who wants to add a spurious dash…

— Anonymous

I love putting the exclamation point on a game.

— Morten Andersen

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

— Elmore Leonard

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

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in.”

— Lynne Truss

“Men can’t use exclamation points in texts... it’s weird. We also don’t say [stuff] like ‘yay’.”

— Jacinta Howard

Keep your exclamation points under control!

— Henry Miller

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

— Sark