Sam Trammell Quotes

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

Everybody needs an editor.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.

I've been focused on the West Coast economy and being a banker and lending in these markets.

I wouldn't in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street.

I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

Because I wrote a book about Goldman Sachs. And I know that, from talking to people at Goldman Sachs, that Trump is the poster child for the kind of client they don't want to do business with, mainly because he would borrow all this money from Wall Street to build his casinos, and then didn't pay it back.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

Manhattan is just all bank branches.