#editor

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt. ↗

— Len Wein

#editors #find #had #i #over

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#failed #most #some #writers

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#become #begun #best #buckets #conscious

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#creditors #debt #power #shifts #world

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

#again #agent #anywhere #draft #editor

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creditor #dignity #master #only #owns

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#editor #high #high school #i #i think

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#editors #everywhere #great #know #leaves

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. ↗

— Will McDonough

#department #editor #first #gave #globe

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#century #chair #couch #editorial #nineteenth