Beat Quote by Tom Wolfe

It's Powerful That Even A Small Dot Can Stop A Big Sentence. But Few More Dots Can Give A Continuity... Amazing But It's True!

— Pacifiersucker

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

— Eddie Van Halen

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

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had…

— Tom Wolfe

“Punctuation comes from the Latin root punctus, or “point.” Those funny dots, lines, and squiggles help writers point the way. To help readers, we…

— Roy Peter Clark

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

— Russell Baker

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots

— Jason Schwartzman

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

— James Mercer

Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

— Phil Rudd