Abuse Quote by Jami Attenberg

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— John Clare

I don't even know how to use a semicolon to this day; I use a comma every time. And you know what? If I…

— Hannibal Buress

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

— Maurice Saatchi

You don't know what a semi-colon does... sort of like my act.

— Rob Cantrell

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure…

— Richard Hugo

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

“We might also want to use a semicolon to hold together two sentences to avoid giving the reader too much time to think about…

— Jenny Baranick