Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Wakoski

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.

David Mitchell

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.

Dave Barry

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.

David Brock

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

Ed Helms

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.

Arthur Christiansen

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Dean Koontz

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.

Daniel H. Wilson

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.

Bill Nye

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.

Bil Keane

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.

Chelsea Handler

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

Chris Johns

The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone.

Bridget Hall

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

Diora Baird

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Janice Dickinson

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,

Julien Letellier

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.

Justin Speier

You just read. Newspapers and magazines and stuff. I was running out of reading material.

Chanel Iman

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

Brad Williams

Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

Toby Shook

Obviously, the tactics offended some people and he quit doing it after that.

Billy Connolly

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

Suzanne Vega

He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing,

David A. Bednar

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Chris Hardwick

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

Noam Chomsky

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

George Herbert

None is offended but by himselfe.