Copydesk Quotes

#1. Which is where I met my my husband. Not currently my husband. My ex. Though he wasn't that then. I never know how to say that."
"Allow my copydesk expertise to intervene: your then-pre-husband, later-to-be-post-husband in his prior-to-ex-husband status.

Tom Rachman

#2. If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.

E.B. White

#3. Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

Iman Abdulmajid

#4. A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal ...

Bertrand Russell

#5. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Alberto Manguel

#6. To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

John Henry Newman

#7. Tell me, Choi Yoori ... are your lips as soft as they look?

Con Template

#8. ...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Joe Abercrombie

#9. In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

Adrienne Rich

#10. Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.

Beau Taplin

#11. The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. an expert. Which, as we all know, is nothing more than a liar a hundred miles from home.

Louis Tridico

#13. Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

Mac Barnett