I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat. — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was… — James Salter Copy Share Image
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
