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Related DAVE EGGERS When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it... JUDY BLUME I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me n... DANIEL H. WILSON ARTHUR MILLER DAVID BERGEN We came out a little sluggish, and they were more fired up than we were. It was tied before I hit th... BOONE THORGESEN DAVID BERGEN My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at... BEN MARCUS I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. VINCE FLYNN The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and ... JOHN HALL WHEELOCK It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an ... IMRAN AMED I had a discussion with the editor of the magazine and he said that he wanted to have a painting tha... BORIS VALLEJO I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself fo... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER DEYTH BANGER In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan Internat... ELAINE SCIOLINO We had so much damage I came out here full time. It took a long time to get caught up. ERIK WIGERT LOUISE BROWN DEYTH BANGER KRESLEY COLE HALLE BERRY M. J. ROSE He was a very good editor. MICHAEL FITZGERALD The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author... NANCY A. COLLINS KATE MOSSE ED ASNER NEIL MARSHALL TAMMARA WEBBER DAVID SIMON FRANCINE RIVERS Why is it coming to Idaho? Because we've never had a coal-fired plant, because we have excellent air... DAVID MEAD I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of p... CHRIS PAVONE HARPER LEE Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' theref... KAMAL AHMED CAROL BURNETT WILLIAM GOLDMAN My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the facult... TEA OBREHT He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't s... SHIMON PERES A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE MARCO RUBIO KATE KLISE FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS My cartoon, which certainly did not offend any Christians I showed it to, was rejected because the e... CHRISTOFFER ZIELER I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my... DAVID CHASE STEPHENIE MEYER MARKUS ZUSAK CHRISTOPHER WALKEN One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through ... EMILIA CLARKE It was a good call and they executed it. It was a ball up out over the plate and he was able to get ... BUTCH HOBSON We know it was 29-29, and almost everyone in the gym knew it. I think the fact they took a basket aw... CLIFF THOMPSON Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are ra... DAN JACOBS I won't be running my posts past any editor before they appear. I will continue to write simply what... ANDREW SULLIVAN JOHN MAXWELL In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to ge... KAREN DUFFY The protocols around the newsroom is that if you're running anything controversial, maybe you'll run... ACTON GORTON It was a little cutter that was up and out over the plate. I just tried to get the barrel on it and ... CHAD TRACY When the call came through it was not reported as a medical emergency. It was reported as a robbery ... ELAINE DRISCOLL MICHAEL CAINE Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have... JOE SIMON Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN HAMISH BOWLES I was just wild. Everything was middle of the plate. It happens. But my teammates supported me. They... BRAD PENNY ANNE M. MULCAHY MARILYNNE ROBINSON MARK TWAIN I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got... ZOE LISTER-JONES When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took... DICK VAN DYKE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. JULIAN ASSANGE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL It was really like something was going to happen. It was kind of weird because I had never been thro... AUSTIN KEARNS I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to uni... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN CANDACE BUSHNELL [Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -no... DONALD ABRAMS It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a bo... JOSEPH HANSEN A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ... CHRIS PAVONE You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my soph... JOHN HAMBURG It was just a classic college basketball game. And our young guys came through. CARL KRAUSER I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to... GENA PROCHASKA CHARLES STROSS I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-... JENNIFER ARMINTROUT NEAL SHUSTERMAN An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge fr... JIM C. HINES DAVID BERGEN H. G. BISSINGER EDDIE VAN HALEN It's a classic story that teaches kids about becoming part of a community. Kids have loved this stor... KATIE SIMONS I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too compli... BILL JOY During the week, the market was already oversold. There were many bargains and a lot of people took ... CARLOS PEYRELONGUE NEIL GAIMAN KAGE BAKER JOHN COREY WHALEY There was no brick that came through my window. It was actually a toilet-stool full of feces. HERMAN BOONE It was definitely tough. I had to play through it, but I was really tired. It took a lot out of me. 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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. 
It is a lie. 
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My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done twea... 
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I was told later that he was a tabloid newspaper editor. 
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I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. 
The Princess Bride
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America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who live... 
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If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
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I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When t... 
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