Chris Lowe Quotes

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.

I am a stickler for damn good writing.

I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done.

If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.

I spent the entire morning inserting a comma; I spent the whole afternoon removing it again.

In my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I've worked with and learned from in my 34 years at 'TIME,' are linguistic conservatives - the keepers of the flame ignited by the Strunk-White 'Elements of Style,' published in full in 1957 and chosen by 'TIME' as one of the 100 most influential nonfiction books of the past century.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

I'm the bullheaded type, and I really don't give up if I fall in love.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.