222 Editor Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Louis Sachar

Welcome Word Every Final Mine Write Make Editor End In The End Decisions Novel Suggestions

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. Lynn Abbey

Editing First Claim Writer Editor Command Very Maybe Them Successful Skills Requires Even Specific Second Fourth Third Set

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. Lynn Shelton

Background Photographer Had Editor Experimental Theater Then Actor Filmmaker

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. Lynne Truss

Job Got Editor Years Literary After University

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic. M. J. Hyland

Me Director Age Lawyer Journalist Before Seven TV City Spine Magazine Both Cadet Also Editor Opposite Years Brain Moved Literary After Then Worked Film Film And TV Assistant

Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help. M. J. Rose

You Meeting Marketing Out Find Both House Editor Doing Up Department Either Agent Ask Your Help Set

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Margaret Haddix

Few Months More Take Hours Editor Revised Revision Improvement After Anywhere Again Sent Sand Agent Phase Draft Suggest

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified. Mary Berry

As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera. Max Joseph

Someone Editor Camera Been Being Wary Filmmaker

I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything. Maysoon Zayid

Girl Homework Everybody President All-Around Council Disabled Student Overachiever Like Also Editor Yearbook Did Anything Who

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely. Michael Arndt

Director Writing Editing Lonely Collaborative More Writer Writing Process Animation Simultaneously Between Makes Editor Occur Overlap Real Dialogue Lot Discrete Happen Stages Happening Process Production Less Actor

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. Michael Chabon

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. Michael Gruber

Work Thought Own Books Way Enter Would My Own Scene Write New Non-Fiction Editor Up York New York Literary Then Copy

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you. Michael Sheen

Home You Seen Own Stage Think Medium Else Relaxed Slightly More Feel Nobody Nobody Else Suppose Always Becoming Editor Camera Front Being Your Choosing Actor

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in. Mick Foley

Put Periods Editor Leave Commas

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

Aria Built Editor Just Loving

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. Nalo Hopkinson

The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook. Nancy A. Collins

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story. Nancy Kress

Truth You Truth Is Three Enough Paragraphs About Finish Attention Editor Short Short Story Story Pages Your Novel Capture Her

Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two. Nancy Kress

Every Drama Intimate Characters Cast Anna Editor Provides Huge Author List May Straight Them Leo Requires Tolstoy Keep Two

When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. Nathan Englander

You Book See Editor Title Mean Many

I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that. Neal Shusterman

Thought Took Would Trilogy Rushing Divide Could Come Like Calling Although Became Around Felt Conclusion Editor Again Then Asked If I Could Pages Sequel Even Publisher

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