Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to. — Gene Fowler 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
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story… — Tom Hanks 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 beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer… — Eric Heisserer Copy Share Image
Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
“On Editors: "... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts… — MaryJanice Davidson 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
Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
