I just sit at the typewriter and curse a bit.
—P.G. Wodehouse on his writing technique
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
—Henry James
It’s a wise dog that scratches his own fleas.
—William Strunk
Math is hard.
—Barbie
Try to preserve an author’s style if he is an author and has a style.
—Wolcott Gibbs
That’s not writing, that’s typing.
—Truman Capote, on the work of Jack Kerouac
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
—T.S. Eliot
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Writing wisdom from the late Bill Walsh, the much-admired copy editor at the Washington Post.
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