Editors Quotes · Page 34

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

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were…

— Daniel Handler

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast…

— Laura Miller

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

— Ed Asner

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

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is…

— Anonymous

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized…

— Michael Dirda

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume…

— Julie Berry

A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high…

— Brian Hodge

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

— William Whitworth

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably…

— Thom Gunn

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

— Doug Larson

I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75…

— Sarah Dessen

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

— Anthony Trollope

Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker…

— Nick Denton

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further…

— William Banting

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that.…

— Indira Varma

Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are…

— Charles Colson

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work,…

— Anonymous