Editors Quote by Dorothea Benton Frank

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

— Lorrie Moore

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

— Nicola Morgan

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of…

— Mina P. Shaughnessy

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

— Steven Pressfield

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…

— John Updike

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

— Simon Mawer

Punctuation saves lives.

— Alla