Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.
– Walter Jerrold
Related Quotes:
- 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
- Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. – Julia Cameron
- Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. – Gregory Woods
- When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth. – John Paul Warren
- Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. – Sigmund Freud
- You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. – CS Lewis
- A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
- I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) – Jerrold Mundis
- It’s a shame I’m going to be forced to commit severe testicular trauma upon that boy – Jenn Bennett
- The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight. – Jeanne Stephens
- the severe pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you. – David W Earle
- Studies show that girls – especially smarter ones – have severe problems in the area of self-confid – Colette Dowling
- Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. – Thomas J Scheff
- The price we pay for being different may be severe. – Unknown
- Every extramarital intimate relationship has a spiritual resonance, the consequences of which can be very severe. – Sunday Adelaja
- Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry. – Abhijit Naskar
- All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. – Catherynne M Valente
- Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. – Jonathan Swift
- … I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker – Benjamin Franklin
- I saw my life flash before my eyes. It looked a lot like a Chihuahua with a severe overbite. – Bethany Blake
- Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. – Michael Scott
- There is no known cure for severe affection for one’s cat. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to go ahead and launch a kiss attack. – Tichakorn Khroopan Hill
- Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. – Nancy Holmes
- There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts! – Editor
- Too many words for one book–truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. – David Benioff
- Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor. – Brian Zahnd
- There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (-¦)A good novel editor is invisible. – Terri Windling
- ..here’s the editor’s prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. – Rob Bignell
- In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. – Josh Malerman
- Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. – Ryan Lilly
- If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication. – Sunday Adelaja
- I have an idea for a new book. It’s a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it? – Annie Barrows
- A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing. – Justin Alcala
- An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. – TS Eliot
- A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree…they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy. – Bobbi Romans