Editors Quotes

471 Editors quotes by 384 unique authors

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell, — William Bastone
I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more youâ€™ll enjoy your partnership with your… — Clinton Anderson
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. — Robert Gottlieb
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! — Joyce Carol Oates
In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only… — Barry S. Strauss
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure… — Louise Brown
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already… — Anita Diament
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced… — Brenda Ueland
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Donâ€™t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might… — David LaChapelle
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing.… — Tim Cahill
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless… — John Updike
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
"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
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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
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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