Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk…

“An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.”

— Toni Morrison

“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.”

— Sandi Layne

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.”

— Bobbi Romans

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

“For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking…

— Betsy Lerner

I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop,

— Ted Nugent

I really don't want to be a hunk.

— John Mayer

In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.

— Pam Brown

“The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk.…

— Alexander McCall Smith

All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an…

— Dave Dravecky

The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another…

— William Irwin Thompson

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make…

— Carl Sagan