Truly love Quote by Betsy Lerner

“I always forget that, in the popular imagination, the copy editor is a bit of a witch, and it surprises me when someone is…

— Mary Norris

“almost all copywriters these days write in a conversational manner.”

— Jason Goldberg

“Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.”

— Listiana Srisanti

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

— John McWhorter

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

— Ngaio Marsh

“Best putdown of a copy editor ever award goes to Raymond Chandler, who, in a 1947 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly,…

— Raymond Chandler

“All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.”

— Stephanie Lennox

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.

— David Droga

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry