KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Editor


Share this page on

Showing 1-10 of 140 quotes in the topic Editor

After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.

~Adam Rex

Topics: About After Black Black And White Book Editor Get Good Good Shape Lay Learn Loosely Manuscript Out Pacing Shape Sketch Text Things Think White Whole Work You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'

~Adam Ross

Topics: Adam After Assure Best Came Compliment Days Editor Every First First Time Food Gary Happen He Lunch Me Meeting New New York Often Ordering Our Page Peanut Read Said Surprised Time Turned Two Were York You I Can Mr

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Editor Prints Separates Someone Then Wheat Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Book Day Different Editor Even Goes Likes Look Me Oh Place Specific You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Art Cartoonists Charge Covers Easy Editor Familiar Her New New Yorker Personalities She Very Working Yorker

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.

~Alber Elbaz

Topics: Always Chocolate Cold Dark Drink Editor Fresh Heat Invited Like Maybe Minutes Piece Show Think Wait Were Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Became Editor

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Alfred A. Knopf

Topics: Dream Editor He Him His Job Looks Royalties Sharing Though Who Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

~Alice Sebold

Topics: Author Back Being Editor Engaged Ever Experience Forth Integrated Intimacy Intimate Just More Open Page Quick Read Relationship Sent Someone Than Unique Uses Words

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Because Dear Dear Friend Editor Friend Gave He Really Teaches University Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

T. S. Eliot William James Thomas Jefferson Helen Keller Jim Rohn Rumi Antoine De Saint-Exupery Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1931 - Desmond Tutu

1952 - Vladimir Putin

1573 - William Laud

1576 - John Marston

1727 - William Samuel Johnson

1746 - William Billings

1810 - Henry Alford

1849 - James Whitcomb Riley

1854 - Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

1879 - Joe Hill

Birthdays on October 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Brainy Diet Health Humor Learning Patriotism Religion