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.

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Bob Monkhouse

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

Bear Bryant

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Jan Ullrich

I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners

Brett Hull

I'm known as a winner now.

Alex Haley

History is written by winners.

Alfonso Ribeiro

We are all winners here.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Charles Rangel

You can't do this without winners and losers.