Lynne Truss Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

  Lynne Truss

  Regret, Book, Dvds

• For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.

  Lynne Truss

  Pain, Book, Emotional

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.newyorker.com. 2003.

• Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, Errors, Hands

  Lynne Truss (2011). “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

• We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, Journey, Voice

• To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

  Lynne Truss

  Children, Book, People

• 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.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, People, Giving

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