"William Packard surely must be one of the……" — James Dickey
"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
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30 Quotes by James Dickey
James Dickey has 30 quotes on this site.
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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and…
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If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which…
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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally…
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing…
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
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I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
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More Editors Quotes
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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because…
— Robert Asprin
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against…
— James A. Baldwin
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're…
— Brendan Behan
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I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the…
— Halle Berry
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures…
— Elayne Boosler
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I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon…
— Richard Branson
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I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
— Jenna Bush
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about…
— Candace Bushnell
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Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
— Meg Cabot
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As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from…
— Graydon Carter
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There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread…
— Graydon Carter
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