It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
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… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Melissa Biggs Bradley spent a decade as Travel Editor of 'Town & Country,' and later served as the founding editor of 'Town… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
First, the three of us holed up in winter in a cabin and took the 500 hours down to twelve hours. Then… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“A good journalist must be neutral,” were the first word she heard from her professor at Georgetown. “No journalist is, nor will… — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors… — Michael Sucsy Copy Share Image
This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Newspapers have been likened to steamships that move very slowly, in terms of their direction. And when a reporter is sent out… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better. — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
