Quotes about editor
editors play ladders
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. Jo Nesbo
editors laughing hypocrisy
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Tom Rachman
editors giving likes
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. Robert A. Heinlein
editors today faces
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. Scott Pelley
editors invisible novel
A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling
editors vision stories
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. Len Wein
editors years clue
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
editors doubt when-in-doubt
When in doubt, delete it. Phil Crosby
editors looks cases
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. Piers Anthony
editors competition vices
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer. Joseph Kanon
editors storm whirlwind
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. Joseph Addison
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 editing want
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem. Natasha Trethewey
editors complaining pakistan
If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman. Lynsey Addario
editors critics sympathetic
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Joyce Carol Oates
editors keys doubt
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film. Peter Greenaway
editors crime dullness
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. Josephus Daniels
editors video stuff
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new. Justin Bieber
editors adore exception
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception. Linda Sue Park
editors two challenges
The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show. Liu Wen
editors feet tides
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. Lynn Abbey
editors issues interesting
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. Graydon Carter
editors information lawyer
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.
editors needs peril
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. Robin Hobb
editors different our-relationship
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. Robert Gottlieb
editors want might
As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.
editors ideas age
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard
editors feminine publishers
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. V. S. Naipaul
editors feels great-writers
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. Tucker Max
editors space giving
Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens. Tarsem Singh
editors want
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. Stephen Ambrose
editors able world
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? Thomas Carlyle
editors giving events
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events. James Nachtwey