Writing Quote by Roy Peter Clark

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

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

— Lynne Truss

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

— Russell Baker

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who…

— Lynne Truss

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

— George D. Prentice

Punctuation saves lives.

— Alla

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

— Lynne Truss