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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
trying
One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself. Stephen Moyer
trying
I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
trying
I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety. Taron Egerton
trying friendly steps
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits. Dick Wolf
trying comic come-up
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. Dick Van Dyke
trying
I try not to be overly analytical. Diane Lane
trying technique remember
I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words. Dennis Farina
trying communicate
What could be lonelier than trying to communicate? Denis Johnson
trying sin
There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all. Deborah Roberts
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 peak
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence. David Remnick
magazines writers
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. Orson Scott Card
magazines time
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously. Becki Newton
magazines opposite time travel
Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. Paul Theroux
magazines saws firsts
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited. Chanel Iman
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 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