Editor Quotes

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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