Quotes about Punctuation

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Punctuation, is? fun! — Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings — Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and — Ursula K. Le Guin
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. — Kelli Jae Baeli, Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft
Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever si — Anne Elizabeth Moore, The Manifesti of Radical Literature
On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisibl — John Updike
I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life. — Luffina Lourduraj
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark? — E.A. Bucchianeri
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, — Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. — Mary Norris
Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but no — Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer scree — Tom Conrad
My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infi — Yahtzee Croshaw
it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At so — Yahtzee Croshaw
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. — Red Red Rover
If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I — Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
It could have been a thief or a murderer. I considered crying out. A thief would run away, but a murderer would murder m — Yahtzee Croshaw, Jam
You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue t — Courage Knight, Do-It-Yourself Editing: A Guide for the eBook Author
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Maybe she's preemptively getting her karmic backlash for that, but there's something icky about all this. Yes, the "hell — Yahtzee Croshaw