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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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.
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
With many comic strips, knowing when to quit isn't a problem: The syndicate editors simply cancel a feature that is losing papers.
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
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.
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
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.
I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.
I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
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.
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.
I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
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.
It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.
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.
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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.
I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
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.
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.
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.
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.