Quotes About Editor

If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

I miss you because memory is a kind editor. The past is a long scroll and in it is the story of us, told with gentle metaphor, and words that bring you back and back, even as you lie there, lying.

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

Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.

Publishing in magazine is an under-used route for authors to reach readers. As a former magazine editor, I understand the power of reaching the audience…With one article, I have reached millions of people.

Agents don't sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don't sell books.

Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

My aspiration was always to be a fashion editor.

I wanted to be my own editor, and by 'editor,' I mean unedited-or.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

Books, after all, are extraordinary things: thoughts made visible, paper and ink sculptures of the mind, time and space made into words. There's no end to judging so many books. But a literary editor's work is never what Ecclesiastes calls a weariness of the flesh. Rather, it's an animation of the spirit.

Back in the late 1980s I was programme editor of Channel Four's Business Daily. Day after day we broadcast the latest news, views and analysis for the City in a period when its visibility was as high as it has ever been.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

I'm just loving BlueGriffon Editor! XML, HTML5, CSS, ARIA, SVGEdit all built in.

Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically: His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong. Her editor would cut that line.

the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In

His curse was his homeliness; his editor at The World , Irwin Cobb, once caught sight of a mounted moose head and cried, "My God, they've shot Frank Adams!

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.