Editors Quotes - Page 4

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Jessica Lange

Successful, Years, Pieces

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A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

Invisible, Novel

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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Pat Oliphant

Facts, Readership, Politically Correct

Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Goal, Worry, Goodness

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One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

John Kricfalusi

Jobs, Voice, Guy

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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

Susie Bright

Book, Hard Times, Thinking

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I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

Tina Fey

Funny, Girl, Drama

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Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Chuck Klosterman

Book, Writing, Years

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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Bob Woodward

Names, Source, Given

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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it

Laura Hillenbrand

Saws, Looks, Stories

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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Bill Joy

Writing, Long Ago, Two

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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Anita Diament

Book, Stories, Months

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Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Mark Helprin

People, World, Letters

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Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Directors, Hybridity, Kind

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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

William Banting

Reflection, Doubt, Special

William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.9

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When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Mort Walker

Hurt, War, Effort

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As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Sylvia Kristel

Directors, Actors, Film

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I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Jane Haddam

Art, Years, Greek

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I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.

Daryl Hannah

Style, Trying, Want

"Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.

Robert Asprin

Moving On, Thinking, Collaboration

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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Ambrose Bierce

Greatness, Sycophants, May

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.220, University of Georgia Press

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A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

Helena Bonham Carter

Directors, Actors, Film

"Munching apples with Helena Bonham Carter". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

Jerry Pournelle

Lunch, Giving, Advice

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God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

Steve Fowler

God, Honesty, Imagination

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