Editors Quotes - Page 2

• The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

  Al Gore

  Support, Troops, Pressure

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• The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Real, Lines, Downsizing

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• It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Believe, Book

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• I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

  Bill Joy

  Tired, People, Complaining

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• What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Sports, New York

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• I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Kings, Book, Literature

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• There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Want

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• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Talking, Literature

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• Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

  Tim Roth

  Hands, Challenges, Facts

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• It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

  Walter Annenberg

  Independent, Special, Causes

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• If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

  Piers Anthony

  Looks, Should, Cases

  Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

  Piers Anthony

  Book, Collaboration, Done

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• Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

  Ken Auletta

  Crops, Fingers, Persons

  Ken Auletta (2011). “Hard Feelings: Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City”, p.413, Random House

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• 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

  Jumping, Genre Is, Ideas

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• Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Thinking, Ideas, Covering

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• Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

  Terri Windling

  New York, Technology, Impact

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• After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

  Margaret Haddix

  Agents, Phases, Revision

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Differences, Littles

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

  John Frankenheimer

  Writing, Thinking, Hollywood

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• I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

  Christopher Darden

  Book, People, Scare

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• 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

  Sports, Tools, Machines

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• When in doubt, delete it.

  Phil Crosby

  Doubt, When In Doubt

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• The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Hands, Play, Differences

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