“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher … are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.”
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writer, humorist, television personality 1919–2011Related quotes
“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
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Quoted in: N.M. Kelby (2009) The Constant Art of Being a Writer, p. 102
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