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Editor Quotes
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. - Evan Hunter Quotes
But for me, being an editor Ive been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. - Peter Davison Quotes
Im a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I dont claim to have all of them at my command. - Lynn Abbey Quotes
First cuts are a bitch for a director, because its been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and youre going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it. - Richard Donner Quotes
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. - Tina Fey Quotes
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. - Tim Roth Quotes
A good editor understands what youre talking and writing about and doesnt meddle too much. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. - Walter Annenberg Quotes
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. - Bob Woodward Quotes
A very good editor is almost a collaborator. - Ken Follett Quotes
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. - Chuck Klosterman Quotes
I got the notebook and got the list of RFCs. Thats how I got to be RFC editor - by keeping the list of who is writing which one. - Jon Postel Quotes
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as legs therefore it, erm, runs. - Kamal Ahmed Quotes
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldnt say the guru - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. - Shimon Peres Quotes
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. - Judith Krantz Quotes
Substitute damn every time youre inclined to write very ; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain Quotes
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. - Christopher Darden Quotes
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. - Ken Auletta Quotes
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. - Piers Anthony Quotes
Since I sort of invented the editor that was most complicated, I thought I would compensate by also designing the editor that was most simple. - Bill Joy Quotes
I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree. - Bernard Cornwell Quotes
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. - Will Mcdonough Quotes
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. - Bill Joy Quotes
I have an editor in my head, thats why I cant read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. - Colleen Mccullough Quotes
A news editor takes the hot story of the day. People take the salient moments of ones life - Those defining moments - and Rockys got to be there. - Richard Obrien Quotes
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks Im moving too quickly on, and there are things I think hes dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate. - Robert Asprin Quotes
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. - Mort Walker Quotes
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. - Alvin Toffler Quotes
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, Im not sure it would ever have found its way into print. - Louise Brown Quotes
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