The poem is a form of texting… it’s the original text. It’s a perfecting of a feeling in language – it’s a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. – Carol Ann Duffy
I’ve been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them. – Chloe Sevigny
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine. – Mike DeWine
I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don’t Twitter or anything. – Dave Gahan
I think when you’re starting up a situation, it’s really fun texting or BBMing or whatever. – Carly Pope
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk? – John McWhorter
‘LOL’ is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don’t have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. – John McWhorter
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication – it’s like passing a note – and this means we should be very careful what we use it for. – Lynne Truss
I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don’t want them to be dated. – Sarah Dessen
I’d rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I’d rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a – acceptable to some – synonym. – Will Self