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Punctuation, is? fun!

~ Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes Humor Punctuation

To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as Thank God its Friday (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive its (no apostrophe) with the contractive it's (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian kill response in the average stickler.

~ Lynne Truss

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I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Punctuation Writing

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

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Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.

~ Anne Elizabeth Moore

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I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

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What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

~ Lynne Truss

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If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

~ Mary Norris

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Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.

~ Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer Humor Language Punctuation

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

~ Tom Conrad

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Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

~ Red Red Rover

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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 normally write poetry.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

~ Courage Knight

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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

~ Isaac Marion

Isaac Marion Metaphor Punctuation

There is an underlying rhythm to all text. Sentences crashing fall like the waves of the sea, and work unconsciously on the reader. Punctuation is the music of language. As a conductor can influence the experience of the song by manipulating its rhythm, so can punctuation influence the reading experience, bring out the best (or worst) in a text. By controlling the speed of a text, punctuation dictates how it should be read. A delicate world of punctuation lives just beneath the surface of your work, like a world of microorganisms living in a pond. They are missed by the naked eye, but if you use a microscope you will find a exist, and that the pond is, in fact, teeming with life. This book will teach you to become sensitive to this habitat. The more you do, the greater the likelihood of your crafting a finer work in every respect. Conversely the more you turn a blind eye, the greater the likelihood of your creating a cacophonous text and of your being misread.

~ Noah Lukeman

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