Quotes About Copy Editors

#1. But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.

Blake Bailey

#2. Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

George Vecsey

#3. Great poets are great copy editors.

Dejan Stojanovic

#4. The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

Bill Kovach

#5. Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

Jane Lindskold

#6. Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for more copy editors.

Pete Dexter

#7. Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

Ian Christe

#8. Lincoln worked Christmas Eve, then went out for dinner with a bunch of the copy editors. There was a casino across the river with a twenty-four-hour buffet. "With crab legs tonight," Chuck said, "on account of Christ's birth.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. 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

#10. People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.

Jennifer Lee

#11. The copy editors drank cheap beer and seemed kind of bitter. About everything. But Lincoln felt at home with them. They all read too much, and watched too much TV, and argued about movies like they were things that had actually happened.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Theodore White

#13. There is a silence in empty houses that is unique ... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Henning Mankell

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#15. The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share.

Alexandra Stoddard

#16. Women love a mystery. But only if we think we can figure it out.

Cora Carmack

#17. One day you may kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

Michael Ignatieff

#19. He kissed me, and I pulled my personal psycho into bed with me.

Ilona Andrews

#20. We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

Bob Dole

#21. The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

Northrop Frye

#22. 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

#23. The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

Sean Penn

#24. Eating fries without salt feels like a sacrifice. "What am I, a pioneer?

Jim Gaffigan

#25. I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

Action Bronson

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

Donald Davis

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

Mary Norris

#28. So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

Neil Gaiman

#29. I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

Tim Tebow

#30. What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

John Lithgow

#31. Marriage is no real excuse for not loving.

Helen Oyeyemi

#32. Finn lowers his voice to a confidential whisper. 'Arabella was
my first literary infatuation. I had a mad crush on her.

Jessica Spotswood

#33. I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

David Robinson