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Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect for your reader, — Lynne Truss

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day. — Lynne Truss

for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And — Robert Lane Greene

is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in. — Lynne Truss

Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point. — Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss

Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought. — Lynne Truss

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. — Lynne Truss

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand? — Lynne Truss

The way people behave towards each other is a measure of their value as human beings. — Lynne Truss

Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with. — Lynne Truss

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop. — Lynne Truss

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character. — Lynne Truss

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. — Lynne Truss

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss

you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation. — Lynne Truss

I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, I should have used fewer semicolons — Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss

Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up. — Lynne Truss

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. — Lynne Truss

All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration. — Lynne Truss

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for. — Lynne Truss

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important. — Lynne Truss

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan. — Lynne Truss

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on. — Lynne Truss

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton. — Lynne Truss

Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss. — John Golden

I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course. — Lynne Truss

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation. — Lynne Truss

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. — Lynne Truss

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas? — Lynne Truss

If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without. — Lynne Truss

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. — Lynne Truss

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror. — Lynne Truss

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now. — Lynne Truss

No valentines from the cats again. — Lynne Truss

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. — Lynne Truss

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels? — Lynne Truss