Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Wakoski

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Austin O'Malley

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Bill Nye

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

Bill O'Reilly

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Bill Walsh

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Bill Walsh

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

Carol Leifer

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

Carol Vorderman

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

Carlos Beltran

When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them.

Carlos Ghosn

When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

Carlos Fuentes

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Carl Crawford

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

C. S. Lewis

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

Agnetha Faltskog

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

Charlotte Bronte

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

Charles Simonyi

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Spurgeon

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Brian Eno

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Diane von Furstenberg

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Dexter Fletcher

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

Dhani Harrison

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Darren Shan

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?