Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ""bottom line"" editors; everything depends on the money.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
quote by Theodore White
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ""we.""
quote by Mark Twain
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
quote by Randall Jarrell
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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
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The end of spring
The end of spring--
the poet is brooding
about editors.
Translated by Robert Hass
poem by Yosa Buson
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
quote by Edmund White
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Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.
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There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
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