I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character,… — Mark Millar 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
So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for… — Jean Giraud Copy Share Image
Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before -… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
