PROOFREADER n. A malefactor ordsprog

PROOF-READER, n. A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

No writing comes alive unless the writer sees across his desk a reader, and searches constantly for the word or phrase which will carry the image he wants the reader to see, and arouse the emotion he wants him to feel. Without consciousness of a live reader, what a man writes will die on his page.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)

Barbara W. Tuchman

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Elie Wiesel (1928-)

Elie Wiesel

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Thomas Jefferson

He's very easygoing and friendly, someone you would like immediately. He knows how to explain to the public what's going on without making it unintelligible.

Laurence Kotlikoff

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

Nonsense ought to be treated as nonsense wherever it be found, and had this been done in the rational manner it ought to have been done, instead of intimating and mincing the matter as has been too much the case, the nonsense and false doctrine of th

Curtis McDougall

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Jean Chretien (1934-)

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)

Walter Bagehot

Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it shouldn't be a heavy experience.

Bret Easton Ellis (1964-)

It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and I'm desperately eager to achieve believability.

Will Eisner (1917-)

Writing is hard for me, ... every critic and reader in the world is looking over my shoulder and shaking their heads about how bad that last sentence turned out.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

E. L. Doctorow (1931-)

E. L. Doctorow

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

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