After Quote by Ruth Glick Download Open image “After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'” — Ruth Glick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare After Been Editor Husband Manuscripts Marriage Says
“I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling orthography. You spell induce, enduce; and grandeur, you spell grandure; two faults, of which few of my house-maids would have been guilty. I must tell you, that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer. — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Just recieved my manuscript from the editor and he didn't change a word. The word he didn't change was the.” — Roy A Higgins Copy Share Image
When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive? — Sage Francis Copy Share Image
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.” — Midnight Taylor Copy Share Image
“Even with my focused intention to be eloquent and reflect perfect grammar, syntax, and punctuation in my writing, I still flub up occasionally. Thank… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” — Patricia Fuller Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share
I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Letters rarely got written in that mine. Work stopped and the whole clan had sat around in respectful silence as his pen scrittered across the parchment. His aunt had been sent up to Varneshi's to beg his pardon but could he see his way clear to sparing a smidgen of wax. His sister had been sent down to the village… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
'Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories. — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with. — Deke Richards Copy Share Image
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that… — Moses Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image