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 acceptbitclock share on social
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. Lynne Truss challengefavoritekind Change image and share on social
I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising. Lynne Truss daddemoraliseegg Change image and share on social
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 bookdiscussexperience share on social
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. Lynne Truss editeditorjob Change image and share on social
As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on. Lynne Truss dayemailignore Change image and share on social
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 importantlivelove Change image and share on social
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. Lynne Truss defectdiscoverfind Change image and share on social
Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand? Lynne Truss cautionhandnaturally Change image and share on social
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 bookchildfact Change image and share on social
