They will have to think through their scripts and make their own judgments just as newspaper editors and TV producers do.

It's a bit like your own birthday party. There's a moment at around 2 a.m. when you just want everybody to go home. But the next morning when you're alone with nothing to do but clean up the empty bottles, you miss them.

There are probably two sporting events in the world that are bigger than the festival in terms of people ... the Olympics and the soccer World Cup. The soccer World Cup sold 2.7million tickets last year and we sold 2.6million between all the festivals.

A lot of editors will tell you that 2004 and 2005 haven't been very good for fiction acquisitions. There weren't a lot of huge auctions or books that publishers got really excited about.

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed