Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to… — Rowan Pelling Copy Share Image
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me. — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply… — Stacy Schiff 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
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just… — Garrison Keillor 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
There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
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