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What, Rudolph wasn’t available?Sierra Donovan
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I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes. You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.Kristen Henderson
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Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.David Benioff
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A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you, " it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod KintzJames Lee Schmidt
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A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.Israelmore Ayivor
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Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old worksMunia Khan
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."~ Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)Ogden Nash
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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.Terri Windling
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Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.Ryan Lilly
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I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?Annie Barrows
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Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.William Zinsser
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But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.Paul Collins
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.T.S. Eliot
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You need editors, not brand managers, who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.Seth Godin
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An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.Mokokoma Mokhonoana