84 Quotes About Editor

  • Author Dan Jacobs
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    Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are raising the stakes in the world of poker publishing.

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  • Author Alfred A. Knopf
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    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.

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  • Author Asif Kapadia
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    On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.

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  • Author Tanith Lee
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    An editor suggested to me I might try contemporary horror. At first this didn't appeal-then the idea arrived.

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  • Author Liane Moriarty
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    It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

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  • Author Neil Marshall
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    I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.

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  • Author Patricia MacLachlan
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    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.

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  • Author Annalee Newitz
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    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.

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  • Author J. I. Packer
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    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.

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