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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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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives."
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"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."
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"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
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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
"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
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"I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses."
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"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."
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