I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was skabichevsky, who prophesied that i would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
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I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of the secret history in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."
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I tend to write things seven times before i show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then i take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.
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I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after i send him a new manuscript, i'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.
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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 own ungodly manufacture.
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It's not brits who think american readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's american editors.
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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.
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The president proclaims war, and those senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, truths. 2d, probabilities. 3d, possibilities. 4th, lies. the first chapter would be very short.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the harvard lampoon. the greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. the step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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How often we recall with regret that napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
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At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember i very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when i was only 21 years old, and i went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "you're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."
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That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
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This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.
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I have so many books i didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.
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I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.
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