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.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Mark Snyder

Somebody is going to have to play that hasn't been out there.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.