Quotes by Editors 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. Garry Trudeau editors expectations trying I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and I have to disabuse them of that notion. It wasn't because of my emplacement within the industry. Actually the writing came first, and the publishing came first as well. Garth Nix editors writing thinking We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor. Garrison Keillor editors writing thinking I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine. Garrison Keillor editors shy people Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. Gene Fowler editors writing art Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness. Geneva Overholser offending editors thinking The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. George Bernard Shaw editors ignorance writing It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. George Plimpton editors pleasure biographies I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do. Gerald Seymour editors writing trying If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves. George Orwell worst-enemy editors country I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20. Gordon Willis editors cutting believe The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision. George Carlin editors editing writing There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. Graydon Carter issues editors interesting As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. Graydon Carter lawyer information editors I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste. Grant Morrison editors cutting careers The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it. Greg Gutfeld editors differences talking If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton editors writing people Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. George Herbert noblemen clothes editors An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. Guy Kawasaki editors kids book I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. Halle Berry cheerleading editors class «678910111213141516»
