This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this,… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work.… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
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Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption.… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
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When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors.… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne.… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the… — Mohammad Hamid Ansari Copy Share Image
You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
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I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone.… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
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