Quotes about editors
editors want
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. Stephen Ambrose
editors careers tree
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter. Michael Pollan
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 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 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 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
editors failed suppose
I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot
editors track decision
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting. Jay Roach
editors our-time
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey
editors earth dirt
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Chris DiBona
editors devil journalism
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.] Jean de La Fontaine
editors devil pay
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
editors watches actors
I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me. Jennifer Beals
editors trying pitching
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up. Jim Crace
editors giving safe
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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
editors good-relationship actors
To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen. Howard Shore
editors letters journalist
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield. Howard Rheingold
editors common-sense giving
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
editors helping convinced
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.
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 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 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
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
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
editors trying miserable
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out. David Chase
editors might needs
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. David Benioff