Editor Quote by Alexander Chee Download Open image “The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.” — Alexander Chee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Best Piece Editor Editor Hold Editors Hold Best Ideal Editor Ideals Pieces Writer
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting that, I'm just… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“It’s important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.” — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
“The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was a performance… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot,… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy and I sang, my voice felt to me like a leak sprung from a small and secret star hidden… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you. No one should have gone… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Newspapers have been likened to steamships that move very slowly, in terms of their direction. And when a reporter is sent out on a… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
