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editors pages today
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it. Diane Wakoski
editors chaos theory
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. David Mitchell
editors two scott-fitzgerald
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal. Dave Barry
editors trying magazines
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. David Brock
editors understanding different
I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. Ed Helms
editors newspapers show-me
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. Arthur Christiansen
editors cost definitions
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs. Dean Koontz
editors agents letters
I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back. Daniel H. Wilson
editors two people
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Bill Nye
trying sometimes failing
Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should. Charles Dickens
trying want scripture
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original Charles Spurgeon
trying littles reason-why
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest. Charles Spurgeon
trying world term
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts
trying world
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts
trying way hurrying
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Alan Watts
trying rooms natural
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off. Alan Parsons
trying entertainment television
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment. Alan Moore
trying acting together
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion. Alan Arkin
magazines television radio
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. Bil Keane
magazines news shows
I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows. Chelsea Handler
magazines reality
The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone. Chris Johns
magazines skydiving planes
I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. Bridget Hall
magazines events publicists
I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Diora Baird
magazines world
I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world, Janice Dickinson
magazines main marks model paying people period slight
Our main marks are the magazines because that is what people are used to paying - paying over a period of time. It's the same model (as print) but a slight difference. Julien Letellier
magazines newspapers reading running
You just read. Newspapers and magazines and stuff. I was running out of reading material. Justin Speier
magazines saws firsts
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited. Chanel Iman