Book Quote by James Thurber

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

“The Couple Overfloweth We sometimes go on as though people can’t express themselves. In fact they’re always expressing themselves. The sorriest couples are those…

— Gilles Deleuze

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

— George Henry Lewes

“Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different…

— Tom Robbins

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

“A few words which he wanted to emphasize were put into brackets or set off by quotation marks. My first impulse was to point…

— Jean Genet

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal…

— David Foster Wallace

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

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that…

— Barry Hannah

“It [writing] has enormous meta-cognitive implications. The power is this: That you cannot only think in ways that you could not possibly think if…

— John R. Searle