Children Quote by Edna Buchanan

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make…

— Gail Simone

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…

— Daniel Quinn

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get…

— A. Scott Berg

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and…

— Joe Arpaio

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried…

— Bill Watterson

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

— Manini Mishra

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

— Dan Poynter

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass…

— John Edgar Wideman

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

— Joss Whedon

As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a…

— Benjamin Percy

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

— Robert Redford