Ellen Datlow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never throw up on an editor.
-- Ellen Datlow

#Writing #Editors

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.
The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.
They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

Ellen Datlow famous quotes

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