I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
First, the three of us holed up in winter in a cabin and took the 500 hours down to twelve hours. Then… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I've been mentored by editors who encouraged me to be constructive and never cruel. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
