S45E6 – Personal Editing Cheat Sheets
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them. – Maxwell Perkins
Read MoreEditors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them. – Maxwell Perkins
Read MoreWriting long sentences is like adding water to tea; the more words, the weaker the message. – Diana Booher
Read MoreI think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they’re writing nice sentences, even if it isn’t adding up to much. – James Patterson
Read MoreA lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don’t know how to write sentences. – Tom Robbins
Read MoreGrammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock. – B.J. Chute
Read MoreThe world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read MoreThe beauty of type lies in its utility; prettiness without readability serves neither the author nor the reader. – James Felici
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