Intimate Quote by Robert Creeley

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

— Arthur Brisbane

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

— Gene Weingarten

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“To me, quotes function as the sunscreen against a writers brilliance. As soon as I cannot stand to look at the magnificence of the…

— Martijn Benders

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I…

— Joel Edgerton

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax…

— George Eliot

“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote…

— Jacob Weisberg

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world…

— Hesketh Pearson

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a…

— Michael Wolf

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson