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editors names together
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together. Dean Koontz
editors poems seen several urged wrote
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared. Guy Gavriel Kay
editors extent hoping next pants people pick scare
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them. Christopher Darden
editors fetus inside picture sharp witness
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb. Lennart Nilsson
editors experience felt hard school telling
When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me. Stephenie Meyer
editors broken fiction-and-nonfiction
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. A. Scott Berg
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
two people attention
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours. Chris Cornell
two church world
There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world. Charles Spurgeon
two numbers records
I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up. Dennis Wilson
two use unix
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, Dennis Ritchie
two long sticks
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches Dennis Eckersley
two lines roles
When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet. Denholm Elliott
two half narrative
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Edgar Allan Poe
two together size
We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ... Eleanor Roosevelt
two world development
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
people
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. Isabella Rossellini
people
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
people
Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' Rick Perlstein
people
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
people
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
people
There are not enough people out talking about the President positively. Robert Teeter
people
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. Roger Penrose
people
My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. Kristy Swanson
people
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour. Malorie Blackman