Books Quote by Lynne Truss

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

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

“Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.”

— M.B. Parkes

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 biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

— Lynne Truss

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables…

— Fran Lebowitz

Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking…

— Lindley Murray

Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss.…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have…

— Ralph Richardson