#editors

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#articles #artist #bought #copy #did

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community. ↗

— Bill Joy

#come #community #editors #i #i think

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. ↗

— John Turner

#benefits #borrowers #creditors #debtors #favored

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. ↗

— Theodore White

#correct #editors #kinds #say #those

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

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#commercial #editors #few #goals #goodness

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#before #better #bit #body #editors

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#corrupt #does #editors #fewer #incorruptible

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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