Quote by Maureen McLaughlin

“You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.”

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

— Juan Goytisolo

“In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and…

— Michael Marshall Smith

“For Webster, too, counting could help mitigate the angst that lurked within.”

— Joshua Kendall

“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that…

— richelle e. goodrich

“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

“There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.”

— John Corvino

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

— Rob Roberge

“I'd be a better writer if I could type better. Or, maybe proofread better the first twelve times.”

— Jack Shaw

“Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.”

— Paul J. Silvia

“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer…

— Roland Barthes