I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I suppose this is a trivial matter but I do want to object to the maddening fuss-fidget punctuation which one of your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Tokyopop's been extraordinary. They approached me to do My Dead Girlfriend - Julie Taylor, one of the senior editors was a huge… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those… — Astra Taylor 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
Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace. — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed." — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. — Bob Woodward 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
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do. — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and… — Jack Prelutsky 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
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
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
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old),… — Martin Jacques 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
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats… — Annie Dillard 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
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript… — Ann M. Martin 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'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
