Quote by Lynne Truss Download Open image ““nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.”” — Lynne Truss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish Copy Share Image
“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.” — Dave Wolverton Copy Share Image
“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to… — Amanda Mackey Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But” — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time;… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
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