My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at 'The New Yorker,' and he sort of wondered at the… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated… — Tanith Lee 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
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience.… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image