You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters,… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book,… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film. — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a… — Stephanie Bond Copy Share Image
![“David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eae/kevin-sessums-9486_baseball_david-remnick-the-new-yorker-s-editor-in_636097.jpg)
![“[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,'…” quote by Matt Fraction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/416/matt-fraction-20494_bars_a-comic-book-writers-union-will-never-ha_1232159.jpg)
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