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editors pages today
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. Diane Wakoski
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 worry goal
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
editors public-opinion politician
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. Austin O'Malley
editors two people
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. Bill Nye
editors denver pot
The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. Bill O'Reilly
editors use paper
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper Bill Walsh
editors wake-up bedtime
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call
editing hate sitting
I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set. Til Schweiger
editing earth film
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno
editing solitude directors
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is. Alan Parker
editing kitchen rooms
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything. Brit Marling
editing numbers negative
I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. Ben Shahn
editing reading-poetry needs
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. James Tate
editing somewhere-else actors
In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth. Campbell Scott
editing casting stuff
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do. Charlie Kaufman
editing waiting done
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.
want feels loses
I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it. Carol Leifer
want firsts staying-single
I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone. Carol Vorderman
want our-family
When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them. Carlos Beltran
want company turns
When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside. Carlos Ghosn
want our-society deceiving
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that. Carlos Fuentes
want
I just want to become a great leadoff hitter. Carl Crawford
want slave utility
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy. C. S. Lewis
want quiet peace-and-quiet
I just want to live in peace and quiet. Agnetha Faltskog
want nostalgia sometimes
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back. Agnes Varda