Copies Quote by Donald Davis Download Open image “Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.” — Donald Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Copies Editors Edits Fool Journalism
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each… — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The fool spoke precisely as he wrote, in convoluted paragraphs that any worthwhile editor would want to set on fire.” — Eliot Grayson Copy Share Image
There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living. — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past,… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
