Quotes about editors
editors people certain
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. Ken Follett
editors cities judgement
making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors. Margaret Atwood
editors trying newspapers
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. Mark Twain
editors eggs bugs
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
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 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 newspaper ripe situation
These newspaper editors should have exercised better judgment. This situation is ripe for exploitation by extremists.
editors earth dirt
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Chris DiBona
editors horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors stuff publishers
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. Christopher Hitchens
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 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 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 lunch giving
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. Jerry Pournelle
editors libertarian wheat
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. Adlai Stevenson
editors voting louisville
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. Rand Paul
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 people priests
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Michael D. Higgins
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 ideas wife
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. Michael Chabon
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.
editors ideas waiting
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered. Theodore Sturgeon
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 might needs
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. David Benioff
editors doe may
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. David Ogilvy
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