Quotes about editor
editors agents phases
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Margaret Haddix
editors government years
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled. Kin Hubbard
editors hybridity directors
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. Michael Tilson Thomas
editors facts readership
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have. Pat Oliphant
editors skills truth-is
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. Lisa Scottoline
editors stuff stories
Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that. John Sayles
editors lazy trying
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
editors phones houdini
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. Michael Chabon
editors people priests
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Michael D. Higgins
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
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 footage
On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.
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
editor eventually industry magazine
From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
editors interview magazine
Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview
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
editor
I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive. Rebekah Brooks
editor keeping list notebook
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. Jon Postel
editors stuff publishers
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. Christopher Hitchens
editors horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors people pet
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy. Fran Lebowitz
editors biographies pleasure
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. George Plimpton
editors theatre acting
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. Jean Cocteau
editors way tvs
I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV. Indira Varma
editors directors depends
I depend on good editors and a good director.
editors stuff waiting
But usually you're waiting around for these editors to do stuff and you get really bored. It was better for them to wait for me! Phillip Noyce
editors names watches
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. Israel Zangwill
editorial merely might published took
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. James Salter
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 gives ideas lyrics music sentences word
(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. Patrick Stump
editors failed suppose
I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot
editor field hiring johnny means poker raising stakes top
Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are raising the stakes in the world of poker publishing.