Mary Norris Quotes About Punctuation

• One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

  Mary Norris

  Jobs, Singing, Gardening

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

• Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

  Mary Norris

  Cereal, Soup, Alphabet

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

• Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

  Mary Norris

  Clubs, Conservative, Punctuation

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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