Quotes by Editors They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon. Anna Wintour editors fashion secret The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into. Anne Lamott editors artist writing My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. Anne M. Mulcahy my-dad editors dad My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it. Anne M. Mulcahy editors dad writing Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin. Annie Dillard editors musical people I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. Anthony Edwards spoiled editors theater Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies. Anthony Hopkins editors An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals. Anthony Trollope individual editors law The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. Anthony Trollope editors habit writing I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch. Anton Chekhov editors reading years That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe. Arianna Huffington break-through editors important Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. Arthur Christiansen show-me editors newspapers It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in a medium as much scrutinized by the web-o-sphere as comics... But I had the comfort of having great editors at IDW (Chris Ryall and Denton Tipton) and I knew whatever I wrote, Ilias would make me look good. Arvind Ethan David editors comfort character After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. Ashwin Sanghi suggestions editors writing For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website? Astra Taylor editors writing kids One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites. Astra Taylor editors artist thinking Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. Austin O'Malley public-opinion editors politician A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together. Ava DuVernay my-best-friend editors together When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college. Baratunde Thurston editors college summer If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed." Barbara Boxer editors pieces writing «1234567891011»