When I put out
When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less. Gail Zappa
Copies
I didn’t think [Ella
I didn’t think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I’d written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over … Read more
I think any time
I think any time people behave in a way that’s truly them, then they’ll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others. Gabrielle Reece
What we do may
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men. G. H. Hardy
We live in an
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The … Read more
Copy is not written.
Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you … Read more
Have you an unexpurgated
Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More’s ‘Letters to a Village Maiden’? Eugene Field
Someday it will dawn
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy. Esther Vilar
Philip Glass once told
Philip Glass once told me, They can always copy what you’ve done, but they can’t copy what you’re going to do. Errol Morris
Art does not copy
Art does not copy nature – it suggests it. Ernst Gombrich