Arbitrary Quote by Lynne Truss

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

— Lynne Truss

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Russell Baker

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

Punctuation saves lives.

— Alla

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I…

— Abraham Lincoln

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 marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

— Lynne Truss

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

— Muriel Rukeyser