"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in comedy.”
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
“Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....”
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
“You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.”
“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
“I think relationships are more valuable than anything - in not just music, but any kind of business - if you can be a good, honest person who keeps your word and works hard, and by practising and getting good, you develop your skills, then you have a lot of opportunity to succeed, because you'll have all these people out there to support you. If you have those relationships, then doors open for you, and that's really valuable.”
“Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”

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