15 Quotes About Punctuation

Not only is punctuation important for making our writing legible, but it is a key part of our language itself. Who says you can’t have a little fun with punctuation? When you learn a little about the way you speak, you’ll see just how much punctuation can add to your sentences and paragraphs. So whether you’re learning how to use it correctly or just want to play around with what your words look like in different settings, these punctuation quotes are here to help.

Punctuation, is? fun!
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Punctuation, is? fun! Daniel Keyes
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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
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout...
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Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. Kelli Jae Baeli
Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very...
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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
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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