Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

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• Bill F. Walsh:

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

• Bill F. Walsh:

  A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expe

• Bill F. Walsh:

  Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cut

• James Gordon Bennett:

  I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

• Andre Leon Talley:

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  This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years

• Jill Abramson:

  The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

• Peter Bart:

  One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

• Isabella Blow:

  I want to be kissed by the people I love.