Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.] — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters,… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts,… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
