Expertise Quote by Lorrie Moore

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss.…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

— George D. Prentice

I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to…

— Michael Pollan

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

— Matthew Specktor

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

— Lynne Truss

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

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

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

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

— Russell Baker

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot