(3 quotes found)
“Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.”
Heinrich Hoffman
“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.”
David Leavitt
“It's like if you took the back of your computer off and started snipping wires -- you can't expect it to function normally if you start removing pieces and parts.”
Steve Bonney