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Editors Quotes by Mark Twain
- No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
- 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.
- The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
- That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
- Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.…
- This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to…
- That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that…
- I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me…
- In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with…
- I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
- Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
- How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with…
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- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — James A. Baldwin
- Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to… — Brendan Behan
- I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. — Halle Berry
- While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their… — Elayne Boosler
- I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I… — Richard Branson
- I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. — Jenna Bush