Defined Quote by Richard Hugo

“We might also want to use a semicolon to hold together two sentences to avoid giving the reader too much time to think about…

— Jenny Baranick

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not…

— Jami Attenberg

It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous…

— Lynne Truss

“First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many…

— Bertrand Russell

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

— George Bernard Shaw

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The semicolon, my friends, is the punctuation mark we use to join two complete sentences. When we want to separate two complete sentences, we…

— Jenny Baranick

“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.”

— Ken Scott

How hideous is the semicolon.

— Samuel Beckett

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

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one…

— Ursula K. Le Guin