“In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.” WorldFictionMalesEditorsPublishing Author:Emma Donoghue
“I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.” WritingStoriesWantedDifferencesFictionBossEditorsShort StoryNonfictionDestined Author:Frank Deford
“The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.” WayWritingFirstsLongHas BeensStoriesThreeFictionRiversBottomSentencesResistanceMy WayDepartmentEditorsShort StoryPrintedNew YorkersObjectionsOne Sentence Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.” NeedsWritingIndividualVoiceFictionAudienceStyleInsightProfessionNewspapersJournalistNovelistsEditorsArticlesApprovalPublishersFiction WritingWriting StyleScorned Author:Jon Weisman
“I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.” BelieveFictionWonderfulPoetNovelistsEditors Author:Frederick Busch