Quotes by Editors Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it! Leonard Read editorsartistteacher The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading. Leslie Jamison editorsreadingpeople These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered." Lidia Yuknavitch agentseditorswriting Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception. Linda Sue Park exceptionadoreeditors I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful. Lisa Immordino Vreeland documentarieseditorsteam Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. Lisa Scottoline truth-iseditorsskills The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show. Liu Wen editorschallengestwo You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell. Lorin Stein editorsvoicetrying Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. Lord Chesterfield editorsreadingbook Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Louis C. K. comedianeditorsfeelings It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper. Louis Silverstein editorsdesigndoe When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. Louis Sachar editorsdecisionwriting I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. Lydia Davis editorslevelsediting I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. Lynn Abbey editorssuccessfulediting Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. Lynn Abbey editorsliteraturefeet I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. Lynn Abbey genre-iseditorsjumping In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece. Lynn Povich editorsstorieswriting I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. Lynn Shelton editorsactorsphotographer If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman. Lynsey Addario pakistaneditorscomplaining I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books. Lynne Rae Perkins editorskidsbook«1516171819202122232425»
