Quote by Kerry Winfrey

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

— L.R.W. Lee

“So why go out as a question mark when you can go out as an exclamation point instead?”

— Chuck Hogan

“The exclamation point is a loud party-goer, demanding attention. Overdone, it can be annoying.”

— James Scott Bell

“However, you could have conveyed your enthusiasm for this idea with the use of only one exclamation point. Three is overkill.”

— Jessica Park

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

— Isaac Marion

“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

“He uses proper punctuation. Capitalizes the beginning of each sentence.”

— Julie Buxbaum

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

“It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.”

— N. Scott Momaday

“The question marks were piling up and I wasn't even ?uestlove yet. But Amir had questions, too, and the fishhook of the punctuation wasn't…

— Questlove

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

— Cath Crowley

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

— Mark Twain