punctuation
"I don't care about quotation marks and directing the reader and making things easy for the reader. I don't want my fiction to be an example of the MFA style of 'show, don't tell,' of giving the reader a window onto reality, of lending a sense of transparency to the prose. Stylistically, I wanted something dense, image-heavy, and digressive, because I like those things."
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, writing, writer-reader relationship, artist's voice, artist's message, punctuation, creative freedom, Viet Thanh Nguyen, break the rules
"There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect as a period placed at just the right moment."
— Isaac Babel
for Creatives | language, writing, reaching your audience, punctuation, Isaac Babel
"Punctuation rule enforcement in our culture is blatant. A Facebook post (from Grammarly.com) on August 23, 2014 reads: 'I don't judge people based on race, creed, color, or gender. I judge people based on spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure."
— Natasha Sajé
for Creatives | language, writing, culture, punctuation, Natasha Sajé
Punctuation Saves Lives
"If you are a writer, you have more power than the greatest tyrant in the world because of punctuation. You get to tell people how to breathe. And it is about breath."
— Mary Gordon
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
(written by Lynne Truss)
Highly Recommended! | books, British, nonfiction, humor, language, Lynne Truss, punctuation
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