Editors Quotes
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
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I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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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.
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I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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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.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
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When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.
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Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
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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.
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As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
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Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.
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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
