#editor

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor

April Michelle Davis's motto on freelancing in the publishing industry: Like it, love it, live it. Like your genres, love what you do, live your profession. ↗

— April Michelle Davis

#inspirational #publishing #inspirational

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#creative-process #creative-reading #creative-thinking #creativity #editing

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

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. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#build #character #editor #especially #evokes

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. ↗

— Peter Davison

#being #books #could #crucial #editor

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

— T. S. Eliot

#failed #most #some #writers

I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#any #audience #back #because #bryant

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#basics #because #category #cool #decided

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #american #american family #average #average american