#WriterWednesday: #Quotes About #Reading And #Writing

I tell my students: If you are a writer, you have more power than the greatest tyrant in the world because of punctuation. You get to tell people how to breathe.
~Alicia Anstead

…write without looking over [your] shoulder. Write it as if no one is going to read it. That’s what frees you. If you can stop thinking about critics, and your editor, and whether your book’s going to make it into the Times, and how long it is going to be on the list, I mean, that can totally free you up.
~Terry McMillan

Don’t over-describe things. Part of the enjoyment of stories is building your own picture from the clues the author provides. One interesting bit of detail is worth far more than ten bland ones.
~Chris D’Lacey

Sometimes the author's first job is to just type and have the story tell itself to the reader. Authors are a vessel for our stories to travel in.
~Joy Fanning

The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words
~Madeleine L' Engle

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.
~Julie Wright

…the book doesn’t only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
~Paul Auster