Editors Quotes
471 quotes by 384 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.
— Yosa Buson
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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
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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
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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
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
— Anthony Trollope
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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
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Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
— Maxwell Perkins
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The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
— Flannery O'Connor
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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
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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
— George Herbert
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