Famous Quotes | My attitude toward punctuation...

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. - Ernest Hemingway
Attribution: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. Letter, May 15, 1925. Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker (1981).

Categories: Author, Grammar, Spelling, And Punctuation

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