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Lynne Truss

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

Lynne Truss

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

– Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one’s personality defects don’t come and go.

– Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss

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

Lynne Truss

Don’t pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

– Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss

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

Lynne Truss

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

Lynne Truss

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren’t in love, and I thought that was quite important.

– Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

– Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss

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

Lynne Truss

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’ and comedians like Paul Merton.

– Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss

I hate to be treated as if I’m invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

– Lynne Truss

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