Quotes about editor
editors understanding different
I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. Ed Helms
editors together information
In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now. Eli Pariser
editor encouraged hard knew verse written
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose. Natalie Babbitt
editors expression ease
Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage. Alex Ebert
editors poems seen several urged wrote
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared. Guy Gavriel Kay
editor eight newcastle northeast
I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England. Neil Marshall
editorial enjoy newspapers pages plenty reading regular sports
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages. Lionel Barber
editors fetus inside picture sharp witness
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
editors broken fiction-and-nonfiction
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. A. Scott Berg
editor glamorous life
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better. Courtney B. Vance
editors extent hoping next pants people pick scare
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them. Christopher Darden
editors experience felt hard school telling
When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me. Stephenie Meyer
editorial entire putting topics
I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.
editors
Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies. Anthony Hopkins
editors want mail
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Amanda Hocking
editors people musical
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin. Annie Dillard
editors people film
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. D. B. Sweeney
editor paragraphs polished suggest
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. Liane Moriarty
editors fool journalism
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. Donald Davis
editors wife married
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake. Douglass North
editors potters i-can
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. Colleen McCullough
editors police scare
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! Dorothea Benton Frank
editors and-love admirer
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! Constantin Stanislavski
editors cartoon hamburgers
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger. Daniel Pipes
editors spoiled theater
I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. Anthony Edwards
editorial journal page street wall watching
He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough. James Carville
editorial journal page street wall
He's got to show the right-wingers that he's got backbone. Go ahead, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. Show them you're tough.
editorial humor joke mind playful question retain tapping vehicle
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
editor finished fresh general happening mom reader sent until
I was really the first-line editor of the 'House of Night' series. I didn't write that much of the story, and I didn't know what was happening until my mom finished the book and sent it to me because I wanted to read it with fresh eyes as a general reader would. Kristin Cast
editor exposed fear front humorous pieces stage standing
Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public. Charles Stross
editor light throws
LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
editor great known
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.
editor hours mind sitting theory three true
My editor and I had a theory that if the movie engages their attention, they won't mind sitting there for three hours - which I find true myself. Frank Darabont