#copy

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#back #cabinet #college #copy #days

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. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#cardinal #checked #copy #editing #error

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. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#copy #editors #every #machines #more

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#call #copy #early #editor #few

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#bands #copying #got #i #kid

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating. ↗

— Jack White

#anything #copying #hate #hear #hope

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#copying #different #else #i #i think

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#copying #could #i #interests #know

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#improve #model #other #people #seldom