Editors Quotes
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new.
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
