Top 976 Editor Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.
I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.
My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?
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.
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.
Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)
A good novel editor is invisible.
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
I'm just loving BlueGriffon Editor! XML, HTML5, CSS, ARIA, SVGEdit all built in.
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.
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.
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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.
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.
If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.
