Editors Quote by Mary Downing Hahn Download Open image “Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.” — Mary Downing Hahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Knows Thinking Want
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read.… — William Zinsser 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
It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware… — Ed Helms 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 process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never… — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent. — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were… — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself. — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the… — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day. — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!” — Mary Downing Hahn 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