I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,'… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.” — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent. — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have… — Pat Oliphant Copy Share Image
If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
