Editors Quote by Kinky Friedman Download Open image “An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.” — Kinky Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Inspirational Jobs Love
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the… — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy -… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better. — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
With a good editor you find yourself shaping as you talk and they will ask a couple of questions that open new things. Some… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people.… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image