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

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Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with…

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Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what…

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“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 in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can…

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 process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks…

Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which…

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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…

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My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

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“nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.”

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

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“one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time;…

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The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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