Quotes about Editor

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. Votes: 4

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. Votes: 3

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal Votes: 3

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Votes: 3

But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain. Votes: 3

Melissa Biggs Bradley spent a decade as Travel Editor of 'Town & Country,' and later served as the founding editor of 'Town & Country Travel.' She then launched Indagare Souk, an online marketplace of global treasures. Votes: 3

I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites, Votes: 3

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. Votes: 3

The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no. Votes: 3

When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure Votes: 3

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough. Votes: 3

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing. Votes: 3

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Votes: 2

In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. Votes: 2

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Votes: 2

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. Votes: 2

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times. Votes: 2

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification. Votes: 2

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor. Votes: 2

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. Votes: 2

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. Votes: 2

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. Votes: 2

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me. Votes: 2

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman. Votes: 2

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! Votes: 2

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise. Votes: 2

My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it. Votes: 2

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age. Votes: 2

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. Votes: 2

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' Votes: 2

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. Votes: 2

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. Votes: 2

The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. Votes: 2

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely. Votes: 2

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. Votes: 2

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon. Votes: 2

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me. Votes: 2

Procrustes was an editor. Votes: 0

Everyone needs an editor. Votes: 0

Movies are an editor's medium. Votes: 0

Never throw up on an editor. Votes: 0

A good novel editor is invisible. Votes: 0

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. Votes: 0

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Votes: 0

A very good editor is almost a collaborator. Votes: 0

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor. Votes: 0

Not too many people know who the editor is. Votes: 0

A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses. Votes: 0

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor. Votes: 0

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. Votes: 0

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. Votes: 0

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies. Votes: 0

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. Votes: 0

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course. Votes: 0

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice. Votes: 0

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. Votes: 0

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. Votes: 0

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good. Votes: 0

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. Votes: 0

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. Votes: 0

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator. Votes: 0

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. Votes: 0

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor. Votes: 0

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. Votes: 0

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. Votes: 0

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. Votes: 0

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number. Votes: 0

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. Votes: 0

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too. Votes: 0

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. Votes: 0

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor. Votes: 0

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Votes: 0

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. Votes: 0

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece. Votes: 0

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer. Votes: 0

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. Votes: 0

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. Votes: 0

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell, Votes: 0

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. Votes: 0

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. Votes: 0

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' Votes: 0

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. Votes: 0

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. Votes: 0

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good. Votes: 0

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. Votes: 0

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. Votes: 0

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. Votes: 0

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy. Votes: 0

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers. Votes: 0

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. Votes: 0

Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace. Votes: 0

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff Votes: 0

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. Votes: 0

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. Votes: 0

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. Votes: 0

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. Votes: 0

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. Votes: 0

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. Votes: 0

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.] Votes: 0

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things. Votes: 0

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call." Votes: 0

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call Votes: 0

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. Votes: 0

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. Votes: 0

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler Votes: 0

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to. Votes: 0

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. Votes: 0

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. Votes: 0

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better. Votes: 0

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation. Votes: 0

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. Votes: 0

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. Votes: 0

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms. Votes: 0

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? Votes: 0

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. Votes: 0

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. Votes: 0

I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat. Votes: 0

It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all. Votes: 0

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. Votes: 0

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. Votes: 0

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. Votes: 0

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. Votes: 0

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. Votes: 0

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. Votes: 0

My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know? Votes: 0

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. Votes: 0

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. Votes: 0

If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him. Votes: 0

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me. Votes: 0

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Votes: 0

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. Votes: 0

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. Votes: 0

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. Votes: 0

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. Votes: 0

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. Votes: 0

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive. Votes: 0

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. Votes: 0

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. Votes: 0

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Votes: 0

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. Votes: 0

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it. Votes: 0

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. Votes: 0

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. Votes: 0

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. Votes: 0

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. Votes: 0

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. Votes: 0

One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust. Votes: 0

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up. Votes: 0

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor." Votes: 0

[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.] Votes: 0

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. Votes: 0

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs. Votes: 0

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. Votes: 0

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. Votes: 0

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. Votes: 0

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! Votes: 0

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film. Votes: 0

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive. Votes: 0

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. Votes: 0

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. Votes: 0

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. Votes: 0

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. Votes: 0

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. Votes: 0

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. Votes: 0

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on". Votes: 0

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. Votes: 0

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. Votes: 0

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent. Votes: 0

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor. Votes: 0

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. Votes: 0

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. Votes: 0

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. Votes: 0

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. A good novel editor is invisible. Votes: 0

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done. Votes: 0

Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick. Votes: 0

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author. Votes: 0

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. Votes: 0

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out. Votes: 0

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university. Votes: 0

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. Votes: 0

Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am. Votes: 0

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. Votes: 0

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. Votes: 0

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing. Votes: 0

I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am. Votes: 0

The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales. Votes: 0

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, "If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it. Votes: 0

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film. Votes: 0

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Votes: 0

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe... Votes: 0

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. Votes: 0

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job. Votes: 0

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. Votes: 0

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. Votes: 0

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Votes: 0

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. Votes: 0

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes. Votes: 0

I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham. Votes: 0

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. Votes: 0

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world. Votes: 0

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper. Votes: 0

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. Votes: 0

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. Votes: 0

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build. Votes: 0

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake. Votes: 0

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way. Votes: 0

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor. Votes: 0

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. Votes: 0

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. Votes: 0

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. Votes: 0

Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character. Votes: 0

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. Votes: 0

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm. Votes: 0

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy. Votes: 0

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. Votes: 0

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. Votes: 0

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address. Votes: 0

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen. Votes: 0

Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. Votes: 0

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. Votes: 0

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words. Votes: 0

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary. Votes: 0

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. Votes: 0

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. Votes: 0

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. Votes: 0

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address. Votes: 0

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. Votes: 0

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer. Votes: 0

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England. Votes: 0

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. Votes: 0

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters. Votes: 0

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team. Votes: 0

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer. Votes: 0

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper. Votes: 0

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little. Votes: 0

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor. Votes: 0

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer Votes: 0

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast. Votes: 0

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals. Votes: 0

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman. Votes: 0

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. Votes: 0

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. Votes: 0

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. Votes: 0

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts. Votes: 0

I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a complete rewrite, but I didn't touch the dialogue. Essentially, I'm a very good editor. Votes: 0

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. Votes: 0

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method. Votes: 0

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. Votes: 0

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. Votes: 0

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter. Votes: 0

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. Votes: 0

You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it. Votes: 0

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read. Votes: 0

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it. Votes: 0

[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page. Votes: 0

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine. Votes: 0

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. Votes: 0

My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands! Votes: 0

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes. Votes: 0

Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we're good at, we never learn anything new. Votes: 0

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director. Votes: 0

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. Votes: 0

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there. Votes: 0

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Votes: 0

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Votes: 0

From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com. Votes: 0

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque. Votes: 0

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. Votes: 0

When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them Votes: 0

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author. Votes: 0

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem. Votes: 0

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book. Votes: 0

As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor. Votes: 0

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you. Votes: 0

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title. Votes: 0

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that. Votes: 0

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield. Votes: 0

I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. Votes: 0

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. Votes: 0

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help. Votes: 0

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. Votes: 0

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect. Votes: 0

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' Votes: 0

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor. Votes: 0

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. Votes: 0

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so. Votes: 0

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. Votes: 0

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Votes: 0

When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job. Votes: 0

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25. Votes: 0

I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk. Votes: 0

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. Votes: 0

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about. Votes: 0

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying. Votes: 0

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published. Votes: 0

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. Votes: 0

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts. Votes: 0

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. Votes: 0

Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my editor, Eduardo Serrano, who kept telling me various scenes should be longer. Votes: 0

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe. Votes: 0

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it. Votes: 0

Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril. Votes: 0

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy. Votes: 0

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit. Votes: 0

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. Votes: 0

If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant. Votes: 0

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true. Votes: 0

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy. Votes: 0

The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently is wrong. Now you're on TV, whether you want it or not. Votes: 0

The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme. Votes: 0

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings. Votes: 0

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on. Votes: 0

When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. Votes: 0

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print. Votes: 0

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it. Votes: 0

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. Votes: 0

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn. Votes: 0

It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book. Votes: 0

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. Votes: 0

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know. Votes: 0

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage. Votes: 0

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie. Votes: 0

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference. Votes: 0

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. Votes: 0