Copies Quote by Theodore White

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

— Donald Davis

I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books have sold…

— William Gurstelle

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

— Bill Kovach

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have…

— Richard Meltzer

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

— Mary Norris

I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper.…

— James Keller

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

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

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

“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.”

— Kevin Kelly

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

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