Stephanie

“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

“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

“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