Roy Peter Clark Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. 1948
If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.
topic: Teacher, Light, Expression, Speed Bumps, Tree Branches, Yellow Light
