Books Quote by Terri Windling Download Open image “A good novel editor is invisible.” — Terri Windling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Editors Invisible Novel
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy -… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“I have never met a writer who didn't need an editor, and an editor without a writer is a person without a job. It… — Alex Beam Copy Share Image
“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
“A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is… — Kimberly Pauley Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose 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've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid to be weird, don’t be afraid to be different, don’t worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming new industry… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur books by… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life," said Simone de Beauvoir. "I want to be a woman and to be a man,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I wish I could have known Barbara Bodichon -- and her whole vibrant circle of smart, fearless women friends. I'd like to gather them… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago I left Boston and New York, and moved east and west at the same time. East, to a little village in… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world -- including Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece, the "Reynard"… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
