Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“Words matter.”
― John Kenney, Truth in Advertising

“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.”
― John Kenney, Truth in Advertising

“Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.”
― Terry McDonell, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

“This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.”
― Terry McDonell, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

“Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“Writing doesn't improve by not doing it.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“A magazine—a relevant one—should be a sound, not an echo.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I love my friends
neither with my heart nor with my mind.

Just in case…
Heart might stop.
Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets.”
― Rumi

“If rock and roll was the common tongue, maybe Rolling Stone could be a translation device.”
― Joe Hagan, Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

“To maintain momentum, you must rejoice in risk.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“To ride the zeitgeist successfully, you have to know when it has turned.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I fear that even if it is beautiful in the abstract, that my doing it knowing that it’s beautiful and worse, knowing that I will very soon be documenting it, that in my pocket is a tape recorder brought for just that purpose—that all this makes this act of potential beauty somehow gruesome. I am a monster.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage—oop!—yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Good writing has a beat. Great writing sounds like jazz.”
― Dana Brown, Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster