Copies Quote by Mary Norris Download Open image “There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.” — Mary Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Copies Editors Hyphens Life Obsessed Phases
“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains why they… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens… You will find that I have marked out a great many in… — Woodrow Wilson 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
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out even on… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and… — Mary Norris 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
