Editors Quotes · Page 10

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng…

— Lisa Immordino Vreeland

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

— Hilary Liftin

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

— Rebekah Brooks

It takes a lot of time and good editors, which luckily we have, to make me look like Jamie Tartt.

— Phil Dunster

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

— William Targ

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a…

— Vincent Gallo

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does…

— Louis Silverstein

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

— Mary Downing Hahn

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are…

— Jennifer Lee

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take…

— Margaret Haddix

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions…

— Jay Roach

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to…

— Bill Keller

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…

— Russell Lynes

Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas,…

— Rita Moreno

If you're an editor at TIME magazine or writer at TIME magazine and you are shocked to look at real documented research…

— Rush Limbaugh

To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he…

— Michael Chabon

It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy…

— Harold Evans

MAD FREE is simply described as "Liberating Conversations with Revolutionary Women about Beauty, Image and Power". It began as a Salon series…

— Michaela Angela Davis

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…

— Ray Bradbury

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically…

— Richard Dawkins

Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms…

— Al Yankovic

I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part…

— David Sedaris

My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up…

— Jeffery Taylor

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor…

— Carl Bernstein

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it…

— Garry Trudeau

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

— Samuel Johnson

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom line editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how…

— Julius Schwartz

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

— Frederick Wiseman

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Theodore White

When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to…

— Rowan Pelling

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

— Jack Kirby

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story…

— Tom Hanks

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

— Judith Guest

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

— Robert Burchfield

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

— Thomas Carlyle

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some…

— John Gardner

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the…

— Mary Roach

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

— Ashwin Sanghi