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 Read Quote
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them. Lynne Truss Read Quote
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one’s personality defects don’t come and go. Lynne Truss Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Lynne Truss Read Quote
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 Read Quote
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. Lynne Truss Read Quote
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. Lynne Truss Read Quote
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. Lynne Truss Read Quote
