Editors Quotes - Page 34

• If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

  Voltaire

  Style, Answers, Critics

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

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• I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

  Sefi Atta

  Book, Names, Differences

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• Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Technology, Editing, Pieces

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

  Kate Cary

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Practice, Principles, Should

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• Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

  Ru Freeman

  Smart, Needs, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it. It's great to have your editor tell what her suggestions and ideas for the story are. It's great to explain to your editor why her ideas and suggestions are bizarre and to ask her why is she trying to ruin my story.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Ideas, Trying, Ruins

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

  Keith Rabois

  Jobs, Voice, Consistent

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• You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

  Keith Rabois

  Jobs, Writing, Editing

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• You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

  Robert Stone

  Regret, Want, Rest Of Your Life

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• One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

  Will McDonough

  Sports, Jobs, Boston

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• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  Geneva Overholser

  Thinking, Offending, Names

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• The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Believe, Firsts, Gauges

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise): A Political Economy Book”, p.177, e-artnow

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• I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.

  Donna Tartt

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

  Jami Attenberg

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

  Indira Varma

  Directors, Way, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  College, Years, Paper

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Magazines, Offended

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Being Yourself, Unique, Details

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, Random House

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• Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, suggests that this is partly because only one percent of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound, and partly because many treatments have never been assessed at all.

  Kenny Ausubel

  New York, Medicine, Validation

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• In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Father, Dirty

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Running, Grateful, Thinking

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• [Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.
  [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

  James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

  Firsts, Sometimes, Forget

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• Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Needs, Care

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• Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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