In the introduction, Vickers refers to William Maxwell, the tough and painstaking fiction editor of the New Yorker, who nurtured and pushed Frank O'Connor along with Salinger, Nabokov, Cheever, Updike and anyone else you care to name.
It's thanks to Mackerras's painstaking work as editor, musicologist, proselytiser — and, above all, masterly conductor — that Janacek's operas and orchestral works now have an indelible place in the repertoire.
That means not only lower advances, but also fewer options for writers to get the kind of painstaking attention — from editors, marketers and publicists — that it takes to turn their manuscripts into something valuable.
It won't reveal much else of what a good reporter does – weeks spent proving a story that gets squeezed out for lack of space; painstaking negotiations with editors and media lawyers to ensure that an article is watertight; days watching court proceedings that nobody cares to tweet about, just to get more background information and inform later pieces.
This is to say nothing of copy editors, whose painstaking efforts ensure that when my work finally greets the public, it will contain virtually no grammatical errors, inconsistencies, typos or erroneous information and, what's more, the writing itself will be stylistically air-tight.
Shure oversees a tightknit team of in-house writers and editors who spend painstaking hours sitting in a Chicago office crafting the articles your confused uncle reads as fact and your cool cousin reads as hilarious social commentary.
Again, it is a simple matter of love".Asked if such painstaking patience is not most unusual in an editor, he replies, "I don't know".
The tale is retold by Robert Wilson, the editor of The American Scholar, in "Mathew Brady," his patient and painstaking new biography of the portraitist and Civil War photographer.
Editors at More said they were dumbfounded when, after painstaking negotiations, Mrs. Obama showed up at the photo shoot with a different dress from the one she had promised to wear.
A team of reporters and editors from the L.A. Times on Sunday published results of a painstaking demographic survey of some 5,800 academy members.
