A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.
– Justin Alcala
Related Quotes:
- Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
- A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well. – BA Gabrielle
- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience. – Justin Alcala
- I don’t imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead. – Justin Alcala
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we’re dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in. – Justin Alcala
- I don’t remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened. – Justin Alcala
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? – Ann Voskamp
- A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY – Roald Dahl
- An Amazing God + Amazing Faith = An Amazing Life! – DeWayne Owens
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- ..here’s the editor’s prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. – Rob Bignell
- Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge. – Frank Sonnenberg
- I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world. – Cristina Henriquez
- Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent. – Clifford Cohen
- If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. – John SC Abbott
- Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture. – Janet Poppendieck
- There’s the parent you want and the parent you have. – Karen Harrington
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent! – Rossana Condoleo
- A philanderer cannot be a parent – a parent cannot be a philanderer. – Abhijit Naskar
- Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren’t a perfect parent. – Colleen Ferrary Bader
- Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor. – Billy Graham
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- When you become a parent, you become a superhero. You realize you have more strength, energy and love than is humanly possible. – Kailin Gow
- veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David – Lee Child
- The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath? – Donna Lynn Hope
- We have a lot of questions, and we want to understand.Music helps with that .Music helps with everything. – Lisa Schroeder
- Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. – Chris Lynch
- Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal. – Amit Ray
- Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. – Jay Woodman
- Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith…it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine. – Holly Ordway
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. – Caitln R Kiernan