Lynne Truss on her best-selling grammar book “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation”: “I’m not a grammarian or a linguist or a professional editor and I don’t want to pretend that I am. Punctuation was a topic that felt knowable, containable. If you get into the larger subject matter of grammar you do need to study it and I’ve always been a little intimidated by academe, although now my old college, University College London, has invited me to be a Fellow, which is nice.”