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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties." »Schopenhauer
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"Silence is a text easy to misread." »A. A. Attanasio
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"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita." »J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." »Alvin Toffler
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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." »Ring Lardner
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"editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell
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