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When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.
I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.
I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."
I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.
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.
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.
Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.
If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him.
An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.