Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.
William CollinsTags: books humour book editing editors
Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.
William FaulknerTags: writers southerners manuscripts editors
I suppose this is a trivial matter but I do want to object to the maddening fuss-fidget punctuation which one of your editors is attempting to impose on my story. I said it before but I'll say it again, that unless necessary for clarity of meaning I would prefer a minimum of goddamn commas, hyphens, apostrophes, quotation marks and fucking (most obscene of all punctuation marks) semi-colons. I've had to waste hours erasing that storm of flyshit on the typescript. [Regarding "The Monkey Wrench Gang"]
Edward AbbeyTags: punctuation editors
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Tiffany MadisonTags: writing joy prison neurosis editing anxiety writing-life editors neurotics editing-humor
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
Betsy LernerEditors 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. BucchianeriTags: reading writing writers creativity creative-process editing arts-and-humanities reading-books writing-books gadfly editors editing-humor creative-thinking creative-reading writers-world monet
Redaktori mīl klusus, pazemīgus apmeklētājus, kas nebāžas virsū, bet pagaida, kamēr viņus ievēro, un tad izmeklētos vārdos lūdz cienījamā laikraksta neaizstājamo atbalstu.
Anšlavs EglītisTags: editors
Great poets are great copy editors.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry literature poets quotes thoughts editors poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic copy-editors
Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.
Stephanie BondTags: romance comedy mystery publishers editors
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.
John GreenTags: books authors value publishing authorship e-books editors
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