"I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better."

-- Lynn Povich

#Strong Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes

“Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.”
“I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.”
“Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?”
“Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.”
“We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.”
“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.”
“At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.”

Source : "Why I Wrote PGP". Personal Website, www.philzimmermann.com. June 1991 (updated 1999).

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