Quotes About Copyedits

#1. Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

Esi Edugyan

#2. For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

Jim Cymbala

#3. Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.

Gary Corby

#4. Parting is sorrow Nothing about it is sweet Don't step on my face

Rick Riordan

#5. I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

David Bergen

#6. It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

Tom Coburn

#7. I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.

Emeril Lagasse

#8. No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover

#9. What we thrive on is hatred and violence; if we were a peaceable people we would have peace tomorrow.

Henry Miller

#10. Disrespecting disrespect is not disrespect; it's a birthright.

Ben Tolosa