Editors Quotes · Page 12

I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent…

— MaryJanice Davidson

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor;…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch…

— Patricia Leavy

My original book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] was 1,700 pages. The first editor brought it down to 700; there was…

— Angela Alioto

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

— Alexander Chee

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.…

— Al Pacino

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

— Christopher Hitchens

Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate…

— Judith Regan

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be…

— Jonathan Carroll

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say…

— Irving Penn

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn…

— James Dashner

These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an…

— John Hodgman

For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.…

— Julie Klassen

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

— Flannery O'Connor

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really…

— Chuck Klosterman

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Margaret Atwood

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others.…

— Beyonce Knowles

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or…

— Anton Chekhov

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all…

— Louis Sachar

Everyone needs an editor.

— Timothy Foote

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

— Glenn Greenwald