Quotes about editors
editors want
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. Stephen Ambrose
editors needs peril
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. Robin Hobb
editors brain firsts
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. Robert Anton Wilson
editors news world
I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive. Rebekah Brooks
editors needs female
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
editors
Procrustes was an editor.
editors brainstorming
I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sara Shepard
editors trying agents
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. Walter Jon Williams
editors style answers
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. Voltaire
editors numbers phones
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number. William Raspberry
editors curious
Editors are licensed to be curious. William Zinsser
editors want strive
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
editors fame claims
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. Woody Herman
editors competition vices
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer. Joseph Kanon
editors today faces
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. Scott Pelley
editors invisible novel
A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling
editors vision stories
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. Len Wein
editors years clue
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
editors want might
As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.
editors ideas age
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard
editors people trying
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into. Tobias Wolff
editors laughing hypocrisy
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Tom Rachman
editors able world
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? Thomas Carlyle
editors giving likes
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. Robert A. Heinlein
editors feminine publishers
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. V. S. Naipaul
editors feels great-writers
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. Tucker Max
editors space giving
Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens. Tarsem Singh
editors kind
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor. Steven Price
editors want use
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. Richard Stallman
editors want would-be
I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor. Topher Grace
editors different our-relationship
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. Robert Gottlieb
editors profile newspapers
I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end. Steve Coogan
editors mediums
Movies are an editor's medium. Stephen Root