Editors Quote by Robert Gottlieb Download Open image “An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.” — Robert Gottlieb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editors Selfless Strong Strong minded
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
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself. — Robert Christgau 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 first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive';… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition… — Joseph Kanon 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
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking. — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have the idea of an editor being someone who comes in like a dictator, and says, "You can't… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long:… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. — Robert Gottlieb 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
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