Editors Quotes - Page 8

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

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.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

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.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

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

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

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.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

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.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

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.

The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

Everyone needs an editor.

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.