Copyeditor Job Quotes

#1. We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.

R. Scott Bakker

#2. The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

Oscar Arias

#3. But I liked my gossip fresh, not day-old stale.

Kristen Ashley

#4. I'm going to kill you later today," I say to that guy in the mirror, and he just smiles back at me like he can't wait.

Matthew Quick

#5. Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!

Lisa A. Mininni

#6. Daphne's thought in Nation:
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.

Lewis Mumford