"Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done."

-- Peter Drucker

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life.”
“For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.”
“The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.”
“Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,”

Source : "Chadwick Boseman on Snubs: 'I'd Rather Have an Action Figure Than a Golden Globe'" by Ryan Gajewski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 28, 2015.
“Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice.”
“I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.”
“I really liked it best when I was a nobody.”

Source : "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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