Ashamed Quote by Mary Norris

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and…

— Mary Norris

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

— Mary Norris

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

— Mary Norris

Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots…

— Mary Norris

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

— Mary Norris

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

— Mary Norris

“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out even on…

— Mary Norris

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

— Mary Norris

Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

— Mary Norris

“I always forget that, in the popular imagination, the copy editor is a bit of a witch, and it surprises me when someone is…

— Mary Norris

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

— Mary Norris

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

— Mary Norris