A Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American - Novelist
September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

Lewis Thomas

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Tom Wolfe

Keep your exclamation points under control!

Henry Miller

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

20 or 30 exclamation points can go a long way to making the tone of your email excited and cheerful.

Sarah Cooper

When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.

Chelsea Handler

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Elmore Leonard

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

Sark

Amalur's user interface is designed much like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, liberally sprinkling yellow exclamation points and markers all over your mini-map in order to show you where to quest next.

Jason Schreier

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

J. D. Salinger

I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.

Jon Glaser

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Daniel Handler

You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.

Ronald Rolheiser

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