Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sayles

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Mark Helprin

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Matt Drudge

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Mark Twain

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

Nicholas Stoller

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.

Michael D. Higgins

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

Margaret Atwood

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

Mark Twain

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Mark Twain

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Ken Auletta

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Kathryn Minshew

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

Kate Chopin

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Karen Thompson Walker

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Ken Follett

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

Rand Paul

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

Michael Pollan

But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

Neil Gaiman

I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.

Pat Oliphant

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Michael Caine

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

Michael Chabon

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

Michael Chabon

To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

Kin Hubbard

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

Natasha Trethewey

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

Joseph Addison

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Lisa Scottoline

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Laura Hillenbrand

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

Ed Jones

The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away.

Carsten Juste

The editors have told Flemming Rose to take a holiday because no one can understand the kind of pressure he has been under.

Lynn Shelton

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

Sylvia Kristel

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.