Copy Editor Quotes

#1. The Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. I have to admit that as a copy editor I agree with the conservatives - my job is to do no harm. But as a person - and as a writer and reader - I am all over the place.

Mary Norris

#3. There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Mary Norris

#4. For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking younger, trimmer, and standing straighter.

Betsy Lerner

#5. I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

Chad Harbach

#6. I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

Michael Gruber

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

Bill Walsh

#8. (I must note that the copy editor for this book, upon reading this section, actually allowed me to use singular they throughout the book. Here's to them in awed gratitude!)

John McWhorter

#9. I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor ... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.

Ramsey Campbell

#10. Everything about being a copy editor is top secret - by default, really - because no one else cares.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

John F. Kennedy

#12. As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.

David Bergen

#13. The world's thoughts are games that are played. They aren't true, but they are agreements of the ways to think and act. The presently dominant thoughts are all built for the needs of maintaining hierarchical power.

Hannu

#14. I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.

Wendell Pierce

#15. Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Donald Davis

#16. An impression is for the writer what an experiment is for the scientist, except that for the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes it, and for the writer it comes afterwards.

Marcel Proust

#17. To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world
without friends or country, home or kindred.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#18. In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

Daniel Goleman

#19. Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

Jane Lindskold

#20. Notepad++ or any advanced editor. All you need to do is copy the code and paste it into Notepad. Upon execution, you will get the output as depicted in the

Aravind Shenoy