Lynne Truss
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Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.
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"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.""
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
"What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?"
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
"Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking."
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
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| Book Haven: Nominate Future Group Read Books! | 38 | 71 | 9 days ago, 06:47AM | |
| On Fiction Writing: Globs of Grammar | 356 | 193 | 8 days ago, 09:49AM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Hollis: 400 book challenge | 52 | 311 | 5 days ago, 10:30AM | |
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