{"quotes":[{"text":"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?","author":"Annie Barrows","tags":["book","editor","humor"],"id":19877,"author_id":"Annie+Barrows"},{"text":"An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.","author":"Edward St. Aubyn","tags":["editor","writer"],"id":20772,"author_id":"Edward+St.+Aubyn"},{"text":"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 Kintz.","author":"James Lee Schmidt","tags":["abstract","art","artist","books","edit","editor","humor","i-love-you","instagram","instagram","instaquote","james-joyce","life","literature","love","paint","painting","picture","relationships","surreal","ulysses","visual","write","writer","writing"],"id":24532,"author_id":"James+Lee+Schmidt"},{"text":"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["editor","writing"],"id":46931,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight inkling of beauty and reality. This is most discouraging to a creative writer, like you, and also to a hardworking and devoted editor like me. I love most of my editor colleagues but I must confess that I get a little depressed and sad when some of their neat little items about a little girl in old Newburyport during the War of 1812 gets [sic] adopted by a Reading Circle.","author":"Leonard S. Marcus","tags":["editor","meindert-dejong","ursula-nordstrom","writer"],"id":54378,"author_id":"Leonard+S.+Marcus"},{"text":"See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.Wordpress.Com for more of my writing.","author":"Ellie Presner","tags":["editor","writer","writing"],"id":108069,"author_id":"Ellie+Presner"},{"text":"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["editor","writing"],"id":161894,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"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).","author":"Ogden Nash","tags":["advice","books","children-s-books","children-s-literature","editor","ogden-nash","philosopher","young-adult"],"id":184366,"author_id":"Ogden+Nash"},{"text":"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.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-writing","editing","editor","empty-page","israelmore-ayivor","page","publishing","writers","writing"],"id":191112,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["change-management","change-management-training","cultural","cultural-change","cultural-differences","culture","editing","editor","innovation","motivation","motivational","organizational-behavior","organizational-culture","organizational-design","organizational-development","organizational-leadership","persuasion","persuasive","story","storyteller","storytelling"],"id":243825,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}