Top 30 Commas Within Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Commas Within

#1. 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.

E.L. Doctorow

#2. I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone ... I was throwing radios off buildings and ... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

William Wegman

#3. Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

Mary Norris

#4. So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#6. Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. 1) I'm, a, comma, whore. Apparently, I throw them around like confetti. Or glitter. The title of my next book: WHY COMMAS RULE THE WORLD, AND STUFF.

Kimberly Derting

#8. Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills.

Chandan Sharma

#9. I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

John Clare

#10. And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Ruth smiles, which rearranges the lines on her face. She inverts her parentheses and transforms commas into apostrophes. The pattern is that of a woman who has no regrets.

Julie Buxbaum

#12. In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

Fran Lebowitz

#13. I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

Stephen Bayley

#14. The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark ... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

Jodi Picoult

#15. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Alice Hoffman

#16. Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.

Daniel Kahneman

#17. A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

Adam Roberts

#18. I respect commas far more than I respect congressmen.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. I hate commas in the wrong places.

Walt Whitman

#20. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#21. Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

Matt Haig

#22. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger