Rememberable Synonym Quotes & Sayings

What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible ... If you're a DC or Marvel or Dark Horse or BOOM! editor who's assigning work, then if you did your job properly to begin with, then the people you've hired can be trusted to do what they do without excessive meddling. The ideal situation you're shooting for as an editor is to groom a collaborative creative team to the point where their work sails effortlessly through production and the most you have to do is fix the spelling and the commas. — Mark Waid

A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss? — Mary Papas

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. — Alan Rickman

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes. — David Lynch

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.
(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.) — Claire Gillian

Realization is ice-cold water and it's dripping down my back. — Tahereh Mafi

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth. — Sheridan Smith

We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin) — Michael Pollan

Ten masts make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life's a miracle. — William Shakespeare

If you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. — Anne Tyler

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress. — Elvis Costello

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands. — Gary Wright

I'm sleeping with a Harvard grad," I said.
"The Emory of the North," Becker said. — Robert B. Parker