Quotes by Editors When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started. Alexander Wang sweaters editors fashion 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. Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. editors dream jobs When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. Alice Mattison editors differences writing I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me. Alice Mattison editors writing thinking The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. Alice Sebold editors unique use Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler editors errors writing I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Amanda Hocking editors mail want LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. Ambrose Bierce editors light writing PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold. Ambrose Bierce editors views feet 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. Ambrose Bierce sycophants editors greatness 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. Andre Leon Talley editors fashion looks Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms. Andrew Gelman editors media criticism I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money. Andrew Tobias editors new-york school It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all. Anil Dash mediums editors I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. Anita Diament editors stories book If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen. Ann Friedman editors real looks I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way. Ann Goldstein training editors thinking If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent. Ann M. Martin editors writing attention I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child. Anna Quindlen editors life children At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud." Anna Quindlen editors writing years «1234567891011»