Quotes by Editors The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. Mark Twain bugseditorseggs How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. Mark Twain charityeditorsregret All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck. MaryJanice Davidson editorscrazywriting I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words. Mark Twain perfectly-goodeditorshate There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. Matt Drudge scareeditorscitizens A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got. Everybody got to play to their strengths and was paired up in the right scenarios. It was very fortunate. It was exciting, the whole process. It makes more difficulty in editing 'cause there's more footage, but the guy I had handle it was a documentarian editor for a long time, so it was very useful. Matt Walsh editorseditingplay The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms. Mark Twain editorskingspeople Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are. Mark Twain envysmarteditors This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast. Mark Twain kniveseditorsbook That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy. Mark Twain clotheseditorssitting In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm. Mark Twain austriaeditorswriting Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. Maxwell Perkins editorstoo-muchpeople No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. Mark Twain editorsappreciationmen Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. Meg Cabot efforteditorswriting Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. Mark Twain editorsdifferencesgod I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that. Micah Perks agentseditorsbook When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Michael D. Higgins editorsnewspaperspeople To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. Michael Chabon houdinieditorsphones I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. Michael Chabon editorswifeideas I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see. Michael Caine lazyeditorstrying«1718192021222324252627»
