Editors Quote by John McWhorter Download Open image “As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.” — John McWhorter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Force I see Me See Writer Writing
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication… Good editors are not 'permissive';… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater… — Pat Oliphant 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
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Modern Our Father, who is in heaven, blessed be your name. Give us our daily bread today. All three of these languages were rich, beautiful systems. There are no dogs to be seen. Middle English, the language of Chaucer, does not give the impression of being a “bastardization” of Old English or an example of “Old English in decay.” It… — John McWhorter Copy Share
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born in Africa, speak African languages, eat African food, dance in African ways, remember African stories, and will spiritually always be a part of Africa -and… — John McWhorter Copy Share
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic talent in harnessing craft to beauty. When poetry is based on a less rigorous, more impressionistic definition of craft, its appeal depends more on whether one happens to be individually constituted to “get it” for various reasons. The… — John McWhorter Copy Share
“The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English’s time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor… — David LaChapelle 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. Everybody got to play to their strengths and was paired up in the right scenarios. It was very fortunate. It was exciting, the whole process. It makes more difficulty in editing 'cause there's more footage, but… — Matt Walsh Copy Share
I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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