Formal Quote by William Strunk, Jr

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the…

— Bill Walsh

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it…

— Bergen Evans

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to…

— Eric Partridge

Semi colon dash parenthesis, text messaging. Thats a side smiley face cause Imma make the best of it.

— XV

“White encouraged Updike’s equally scrupulous commitment. They bonded over dashes, colons, and commas—most amazingly in an exchange of letters in the last two months…

— Adam Begley

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

— John Clare

“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

“The punctuation mark that best describes me as a person is the dash. But for Mark Question, it would probably be the question mark.…

— Jarod Kintz

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 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