Bill Walsh Quotes

I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might have disliked them because I never knew how to properly apply them. Also commas, and whether they were outside the quote or inside the quote - that all seemed like an unnecessary pain in the ass.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon.

I can't write - I don't even know how to punctuate.

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

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

English was my worst subject in school.

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

I think smartphones need to send an electrical shock to a user when they get their your/you're mixed up.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.