Editors Quotes

471 Editors quotes by 384 unique authors

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my… — J D Salinger
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell… — Natasha Trethewey
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill… — Gabrielle Zevin
I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger].… — Neil Gaiman
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. — David Benioff
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their… — Ray Bradbury
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it. — Joe McNally
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it.… — Jean Cocteau
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be… — Nora Roberts
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. — David Mitchell
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century… — Douglas Adams
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Elwyn Brooks White
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees… — Michael Pollan
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it… — Barbara Kingsolver
Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does.… — Jayne Ann Krentz
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re… — Chris Colfer
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school… — Sylvia Plath
Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But… — Sarah Rees Brennan
I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing. — David Robinson
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that… — Jason Epstein
Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us… — Stefano Tonchi

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