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

-- Bill Kovach

#Editors Quotes #Arguing Quotes #Desks Quotes

“For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.”
“Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.”

Source : PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.
“Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.”
“That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.141, Macmillan
“Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.”
“Everyone's God is One.”
“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”

Source : Irving Stone (1961). “the Agony and the Ecstasy”
“If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.”

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