With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do… — Donald Davis Copy Share Image
“Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a… — Stephanie Bond Copy Share Image
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best. — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion]… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau 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 real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it,… — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image