Quotes by Editors And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. Jerry Pournelle editorslunchgiving I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. Jerry Seinfeld magazineseditorswriting It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house. Jerry Spinelli rejectioneditorsyears Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. Jessica Lange editorssuccessfulyears Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up. Jim Crace curlseditorstrying You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. Jo Nesbo editorsnovelistsplay 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. JoAnn Ross editorsheardchildren My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences. Jim Gaffigan editorsdadbook There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to. Joe Dante editorsvocabularythinking 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. Joe McNally editorslightphotography Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's of course director and cast commentary on each episode on the DVD. We had a blast recording that. Joel McHale dvdseditorsair We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. Joel Spolsky programmingeditorsmorning I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy. Joel Stein oxygeneditorshate Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece. John Creasey editorswritingideas Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril. John Creasey editorslunchbook Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. John Farrar great-authorproduceeditors And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit. John Frankenheimer editorswritingthinking 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. John Hall Wheelock publishing-houseeditorsjobs I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so. John Hyams editorseditinglong Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily. John Jakes editorsgiving-uptaste«1011121314151617181920»
