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WHICH WRITERS USE EXCLAMATION POINTS MOST—THE KEY.

February 22, 2017 at 5:46 PM · Literature, Uncategorized

WHICH WRITERS USE EXCLAMATION POINTS MOST—THE KEY. Here are the results for the ten writers. The number opposite their names is the number of exclamation points they use per 100,000 words.

Elmore Leonard…….49

Ernest Hemingway…..59

Toni Morrison…….111

Salman Rushdie……204

Virginia Woolf……258

E L James………..278

F Scott Fitzgerald..356

Jane Austen………449

Tome Wolfe……….929

James Joyce……..1105

I had been sure that the winner would be Tom Wolfe.