Lynne Truss quotes

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)
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. View quote
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What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. View quote
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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. View quote
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The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. View quote
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Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. View quote
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Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. View quote
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Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation. View quote
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What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. View quote
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. View quote
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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)
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. View quote
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I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising. View quote
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The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards. View quote
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Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness. View quote
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You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. View quote
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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)
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus? View quote
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Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences. View quote
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All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala. View quote
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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? View quote
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Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss - Image
Photo: Terry Ballard from Merrick, New York, USA, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: English Writer
Born: May 31, 1955
Quotes count: 30