Editors Quotes
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
Indira Varma
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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.
Louis Sachar
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Edan Lepucki
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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
Felix Dennis
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
T. S. Eliot
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Walter Jon Williams
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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.
Nalo Hopkinson
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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
Betsy Lerner
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Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.
Clara Jeffery
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
Carine Roitfeld
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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.
Vince Gilligan
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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.
Sara Willis
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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.
Alexander McQueen
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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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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.
Edmund White
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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.
Baratunde Thurston
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Len Wein
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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.
Virginia Madsen
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It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in a medium as much scrutinized by the web-o-sphere as comics... But I had the comfort of having great editors at IDW (Chris Ryall and Denton Tipton) and I knew whatever I wrote, Ilias would make me look good.
Arvind Ethan David
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As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
Adrian Rogers
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke