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It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.

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• Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • You
  • Try
  • Editors

• There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • You
  • Editors

• The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Age
  • Celebrity
  • Editors

• When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Writing
  • Decision
  • Novel

• The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Ends
  • Editors

• Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Television

• Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Words
  • Language
  • Communicate

• Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kind
  • Performers
  • Mediums

• Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

  

  William S. Paley
  • Television
  • Advertising
  • Selling

• I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Actors
  • Philosophy
  • Directors

• It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Mediums

• Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • People
  • Teach
  • Hollywood

• If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Working
  • Mediums

• Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Delight
  • Composition
  • Mediums

• The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Choices
  • Bunch
  • Crap

• Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

  

  George Vecsey
  • Mistakes
  • Editors
  • Reporters

• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lazy
  • Directors

• I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Writers
  • Editors

• I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Believe
  • Win
  • Race

• There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

  

  Hayden Schlossberg
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Together
  • Political
  • Patriotic

• I am the richest person alive because I get to do what I love as a career.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Career
  • Person
  • Richest

• It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.

  

  Anil Dash
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