#editors

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

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#direct #edit #editors #everyone #expert

Creditors have better memories than debtors. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#creditors #debtors #memories #than

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#editors #i #life #merchandise #merely

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#doing #editors #experience #felt #first

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#just #partisan #paul #review #thinks

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#editors #guess #i #king #like

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#editors #extent #going #hoping #how

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands. ↗

— Kelly LeBrock

#hands #mercy #you

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#been #both #coin #confidence #credit