Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the ….

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe..

Everyone needs an editor..

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their….

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell..

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each t….

It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn'….

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor..

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter..

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice..

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn'….

These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-e….

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpreta….

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author..

In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can alwa….

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others ….

Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is….

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a….

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, ma….

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the ed….

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by….