The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the….
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a….
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) grave….
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right..
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something ab….
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken o….
This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British para….
It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all..
Never throw up on an editor..
First, the three of us holed up in winter in a cabin and took the 500 hours down to twelve hours. Then we found an editor, Lambis Haralambidis. He to….
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. Th….
When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my dues and educating myself. I get where they we….
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my h….
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names..
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I c….
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own ….
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time..
The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot..
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a livin….
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines..
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to wor….