#editors

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#commercial #editors #few #goals #goodness

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#around #being #dreamt #editors #finished

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#humor #change

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

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#editors #future #internet #me #reporting

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

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. ↗

— Edmund White

#editors #empty #ever #first #i

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

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#books #collaboration #done #editors #even