A Quote by Donald Davis

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Donald Davis

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Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

Joe Simon

I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.

Wendell Pierce

Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

Eugene Schwartz

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

Yohji Yamamoto

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

Bethany Cosentino

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

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

Liam Aiken

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

Colm Wilkinson

I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

Liam Aiken

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

Michael Gruber

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Mary Norris

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

Chad Harbach

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

Anne Hegerty

I wanted to be my own editor, and by 'editor,' I mean unedited-or.

Leandra Medine

My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.

Jeffery Taylor

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

John Hyams

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