Critics Quote by Maxwell Perkins Download Open image “Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.” — Maxwell Perkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics Editors People Too much Trust
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust. — Toni Jerrman 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
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
