Quotes by Editors 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. Indira Varma editorsdirectorsway I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazinethat was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an officeI had to pull out. Hunter S. Thompson san-franciscoeditorsthinking A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. Irwin Shaw editorswritingtalking Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. Israel Zangwill editorsnameswatches As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness. J. Budziszewski editorsnameschildren Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take. J. R. Moehringer editorsgiving-upwriting Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! Jack Germond editorspaperheart As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. Jack Dorsey chiefseditorsjobs I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable. Jack Kirby editorsartistideas Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. Jack Kirby editorsartisthumble I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. Jack Prelutsky editorsanimalfun An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. Jackie Kennedy editorsencouragementmother One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author. Jackie Kennedy publishingeditorsbook if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. Jacqueline Winspear editorstimeway As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant. James A. Haught virginiaeditorshate The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department. Jamaica Kincaid editorswritingrivers 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. James A. Baldwin editorsliteraturewriting William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey our-timeeditors To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents. James Dashner editorspracticewriting When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator. James McGreevey editorsgayeye«89101112131415161718»
