Quotation marks Quote by Lynne Truss

“Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under…

— Lynne Truss

“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out…

— Raymond Carver

“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“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

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

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

— Charles Dickens

“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.”

— Jodi Picoult

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce…

— Aristotle

“3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.”

— William Strunk

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated.…

— Richard Whately

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of…

— Mina P. Shaughnessy

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss