Quotes by Editors This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address. Barbara Kingsolver appreciate editors writing In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn. Barry S. Strauss editors college rose It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it. Ben Bradlee editors government people Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. Ben Bradlee lazy editors thinking It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on". Bernard Haisch vantage-point editors unique But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. Betsy Lerner editors eye world I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique." Betty Friedan magazines editors trying While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work. Betty Friedan editors college years Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. Betty Friedan offended magazines editors I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. Bill Joy editors interesting thinking I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community. Bill Joy editors community thinking I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. Bill Joy tired editors people I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Bill Joy long-ago editors writing Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. Bill Keller editors satisfaction writing The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more. Bill Kovach desks editors arguing There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Bill Nye editors two people The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. Bill O'Reilly denver editors pot Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. Bill Walsh wake-up editors sports Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper Bill Walsh editors tools sports I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing. Bill Watterson editors order ideas «1234567891011»
