An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and th

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

We write to remember our nows later. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Writing

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Writing

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

Category:
Writing

Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. – Thomas Bulfinch

Category:
Happiness

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best. – Wayne Rooney

Category:
Experience

“Safety First” is “Safety Always.” – Charles M. Hayes

Category:
Firefighters

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Truth is the daughter of Time. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Time