Quotes About Proofreading

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

I was a pretty good academic proofreader, I just wasn't good at keeping up with the paperwork.

He was distinguished by a red eye that had hemorrhaged while proofreading unsolicited manuscripts.

In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and built nests in there. Why should I not speak like a poet, with a commonwealth of language at my disposal, constantly invigorated by new arrivals?

The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the manuscript. Once all these changes are identified, a second-pass proof is made, and this, too, gets sent to the author and the proofreader, and the process begins anew.

Bad grammar makes me [sic].

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

orr we find a typo in a book.

This edition is based on Orwell's typescript of November 1948, amended according to his proof corrections and taking in a few readings that are deemed to be his from the American first edition.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.

When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.

I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

He left to do whatever editors do.

I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.

Bad spelling can be lethal.