Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
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.
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
After a series of jobs that I prefer not to recall, I was hired in the early eighties as fashion editor of 'New York' magazine.
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Asking the government to fix our economy is like asking an editor to fix a movie, but in this case, the editor's not even of one mind.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
I knew Anna Wintour was the editor in chief of Vogue,' I just didn't understand what it meant to wait around to meet with Anna Wintour.
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
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.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.