Essentials Quote by Bill Walsh

“Isn't it odd, the attractiveness of type and paper and ink, bodying thoughts and descriptions? Isn't it odd how much the sight can teach…

— Anonymous

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

— Daniel Okrent

“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this…

— Emil Ruder

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established…

— Denis Dutton

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

— Louise Linton

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of…

— Mina P. Shaughnessy

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of…

— Walter Jon Williams

If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed…

— Neal Stephenson

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

— Mick Foley

That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set.…

— Scott Spencer

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon