Editors Quote by Rands Download Open image “Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.” — Rands ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Messy
Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and force myself… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I have no one else involved in the writing process. I would hate to feel that I was going into the studio with something… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. — Rands Copy Share Image
When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job… — Rands Copy Share Image
Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something… — Rands Copy Share Image
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the… — Rands Copy Share Image
Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant. — Rands Copy Share Image
Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency. — Rands 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