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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
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Chelsea Yarbro
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
Author:
Terri Windling
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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!
Author:
Terri Windling
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Author:
Walter Williams
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Author:
Walter Williams
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Author:
Theodore White
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
Author:
Edmund White
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Author:
Len Wein
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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.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Author:
Mark Twain
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
Author:
Joe Simon
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Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
Author:
Julius Schwartz
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The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.
Author:
John Sayles
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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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.
Author:
Mike Royko
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
Author:
Galen Rowell
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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.
Author:
Pat Oliphant
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
Author:
Lennart Nilsson
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You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
Author:
Kelly LeBrock
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Author:
Bill Joy
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Author:
Randall Jarrell
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Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.
Author:
Michael Isikoff
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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.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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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.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
Author:
Thom Gunn
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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
Author:
John Gardner
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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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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.
Author:
John Frankenheimer
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
Author:
C. Forester
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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.
Author:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Author:
T. Eliot
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There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
Author:
Matt Drudge
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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
Author:
James Dickey
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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
Author:
Christopher Darden
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I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.
Author:
Connie Chung
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Author:
Kate Chopin
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When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
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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.
Author:
Susie Bright
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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.
Author:
Ben Bradlee
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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.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Author:
Stephen Ambrose
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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.
Author:
Lynn Abbey
