History Quote by Lynne Truss

“If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this…

— Lynne Truss

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self

“Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.”

— Lynne Truss

“In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of…

— Lynne Truss

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe…

— Lynne Truss

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your…

— T.C. Boyle

“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout…

— Patty McGee

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. –…

— Swami Achuthananda

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best…

— David Mermin

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is…

— Maryanne Wolf