Grammar Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“How come you never use semicolons?” she’ll say. Or: “How come you chop it all up into little sections instead of letting it flow…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How hideous is the semicolon.

— Samuel Beckett

“Semicolon, you dolt!”

— Jean Shepherd

“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”

— Camille Desmoulins

“In our world," Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, "there will be no semicolons.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a…

— Victor Klemperer

“The one critisism the author of Slaugherhouse-Five would make of the young writer was what he called a punctuation problem. Mr. Vonnegut didn't like…

— John Irving