Advice Quote by Mark Twain

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a…

— Miles Kington

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one…

— Tom Wolfe

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

— Faith Salie

“humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald – that well-known knockabout gag-man – said it was like…

— Lynne Truss

“If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing exclamation points…

— Chuck Klosterman

I love putting the exclamation point on a game.

— Morten Andersen

“F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case…

— Chuck Klosterman

Keep your exclamation points under control!

— Henry Miller

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is…

— Lewis Thomas

“An excessive use of exclamation marks is a certain indication of an unpractised writer or of one who wants to add a spurious dash…

— Anonymous

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

— Elmore Leonard