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Copy Quotes
What gets borrowed, and what gets missed.
These quotes include a personal keepsake, a well-worn family copy of a classic story kept on a desk for inspiration, alongside memories of writing advertising copy for very different clients. See Copying.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.
- Nov 07, 2020
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn't get the resources that would excite our students about learning.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
- Flight
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- Nov 07, 2020