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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
Books
"Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper."
Media
"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
Media
"If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked."
Media
"Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives."
Will
"I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses."
Beginning
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
Communication
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