Editors Quotes

471 quotes by 384 authors

I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most… — Alfred Hitchcock
The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. — Yosa Buson
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing… — Will Allison
Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph to Rupert Murdoch… — Ita Buttrose
You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And… — Unknown Author
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. — Flannery O'Connor
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,… — Samuel Johnson
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! — Constantin Stanislavski
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. — George Herbert

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