Editing Quote by George D. Prentice Download Open image “Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.” — George D. Prentice ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Exactness Made Punctuation Writing
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss.… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
“Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, “The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
