Body language Quote by Russell Baker

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

— Russell Baker

“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change…

— Isaac Marion

I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand…

— Isaac Marion

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

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly…

— Anne Tyler

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for…

— Catherine Brady

“On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader…

— Lynne Truss

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it…

— Anthony Hamilton

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

— Don Henley