Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

James Salter

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Jon Postel

I got the notebook and got the list of RFCs. That's how I got to be RFC editor - by keeping the list of who is writing which one.

Patrick Stump

(Wentz) just gives me lyrics and phrases and sentences and ideas that are just kind of disembodies from any song, ... I'm his word editor and he's my music editor.

T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

Cynthia is one of the nation's most skillful editorial writers and commentators.

Mark Burnett

It's not only the talented editors and producers but also the machines,

They will have to think through their scripts and make their own judgments just as newspaper editors and TV producers do.

Billy Collins

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

Daryl Hannah

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

David Chase

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

Dan Rather

This was great reporting. I think the public should know that great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. And the role of the late Katherine Graham, who owned The Washington Post, is not to be underestimated.

Garth Nix

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

Jim Costa

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

Kurt Vonnegut

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

Evan Thomas

There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

Matt Drudge

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Mark Twain

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

Nicholas Stoller

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.

H. L. Mencken

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H. L. Mencken

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

Mark Helprin

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Jim Crace

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

Ken Auletta

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Kathryn Minshew

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

Kate Chopin

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Karen Thompson Walker

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Ken Follett

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.