Editors Quote by Alice Mattison Download Open image “I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.” — Alice Mattison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Firsts Hard Remember Thinking Used Writing
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.'… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then,… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image