Editors Quotes
471 Editors quotes by 384 unique authors
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Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I…
— James Keller
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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make…
— Richard Branson
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There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your…
— Michelle Malkin
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you…
— J. R. Moehringer
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General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many…
— Lawrence Venuti
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It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide…
— Arthur Plotnik
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When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn.…
— Jean Giraud
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What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or…
— Mark Waid
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In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or…
— Mark Waid
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There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life…
— Gail Simone
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The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they…
— Mark Waid
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[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with…
— Matt Fraction
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Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your…
— Gail Simone
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With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
— Donald Davis
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Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they…
— Peter Drucker
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of…
— Willa Cather
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Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Anyone who can not write should.
— Harlan Ellison
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A good novel editor is invisible.
— Terri Windling
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Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman -…
— Michael Chabon
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