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. HeinleinYou'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out.
Stephen KingA good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.
Bobbi RomansTag: authors romance-novels editors
I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock."
— Michelle Tea, "Paris: A Lie"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache
Tag: queer aging anthology lgbt-literature editors experimental clint-catalyst michelle-tea first-person-narrative
Es curioso: de un tiempo a esta parte se pretende que los escritores se ocupen y se pronuncien sobre cuestiones pertenecientes al mundo editorial. Mientras tanto, los editores funcionan como críticos –en el peor sentido del oficio– y los críticos como escritores –en el peor sentido del oficio, también–. Todo está un poco confundido, desfasado.
Rodrigo FresánTag: editors
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