Quote by Isaac Marion

I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand…

— Isaac Marion

“I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

— Isaac Marion

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

— Isaac Marion

“When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout,…

— Russell Baker

“Ellipses," according to Henry, are "fucking excellent." The exclamation mark is just a weird guy who talks too loudly.”

— Cath Crowley

“When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me,…

— David Gordon

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

— L.R.W. Lee

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a word, and each word is a…

— Paul Auster

“...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.”

— Pat Conroy

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

— Nicola Morgan