#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

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ↗

— Mark Twain

#delete #editor #every #every time #inclined

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point. ↗

— Paul Conrad

#editorial #finish #i #i can #ideal

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ↗

— Mark Twain

#editors #kings #only #people #presidents

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗

— John Barton

#editor #intended #journal #literary #reader

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#each #extraterrestrial #fifty #letter #lines

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me. ↗

— Susie Bright

#associated #because #beginning #books #career