I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous… — Julian Schwinger 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
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer. — John McWhorter 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
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to… — Jessica Lange 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
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was… — Lennart Nilsson 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 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
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
I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the… — Kate Chopin 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
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
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
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well. — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
