She moved with such
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks. Gail Carriger
Exclamation
If you think reading
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it’s even harder. It’s still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent … Read more
God is not an
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this. Eric Weiner
All great ideas should
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark – a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers. Emile M. Cioran
Keep your exclamation points
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. Elmore Leonard
How shall I ever
How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?’ she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. ‘Let me speak to her.’ ‘Oh, no! I owe it to her, – but what will she say?’ ‘I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, \”That man!\” ‘ ‘Hush!’ said Margaret, ‘or I shall try and show you your … Read more
People don\’t come to
People don’t come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Cut out all these
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Even as she’d been
Even as she’d been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says all is good in the world like exclamation marks, after all. Derek Landy
A pretty face had
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she’d grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry … Read more