Comma Quotes
On the pause that changes everything.
These quotes take the comma seriously as craft: one writer compares it to a musical rest that gives a sentence room to breathe, while another admits losing sleep over whether one comma sat in the wrong place.
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
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I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
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If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower,...
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A third describes spending entire days removing a comma and putting it right back, which says as much about revision as punctuation. See also Attaining quotes.
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