Editors Quotes

471 Editors quotes by 384 unique authors

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes. — John O'Hara
The job of the critic is to report to us his moods. — Oscar Wilde
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. — Edward Albee
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… — Anton Chekhov
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four… — Harry S. Truman
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,… — Ernest Hemingway
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet… — John Y. Campbell
Never throw up on an editor. — Unknown Author
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored… — Daniel Quinn
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. — George Bernard Shaw
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors… — William Zinsser
Everyone needs an editor. — Timothy Foote
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The… — Ernest Hemingway
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. — William Targ
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until… — Chase Jarvis

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