Editors Quotes · Page 13

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the…

— Alan Rusbridger

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects…

— Douglass North

“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.”

— Bobbi Romans

On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across…

— Joe Madureira

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

— Alice Mattison

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes…

— Shane McCrae

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

— Meg Cabot

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

— Tavi Gevinson

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But…

— Steven Sebring

First, the three of us holed up in winter in a cabin and took the 500 hours down to twelve hours. Then…

— Sam Pressman

I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent…

— MaryJanice Davidson

There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their…

— Graydon Carter

I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch…

— Patricia Leavy

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice…

— Dave Barry

I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion]…

— Zachary Cole Smith

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I…

— Mark Edward

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During…

— Dave Barry

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that…

— Peter Higgs

The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now…

— Kathryn Flett

I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more you’ll enjoy your…

— Clinton Anderson

I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is…

— Alexander Wang

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

— Gene Fowler

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the…

— Chuck Klosterman

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

— Anthony Trollope

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

— Mark Twain

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

— Ken Follett

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

— Bill Keller

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no…

— Walter Cronkite

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

— George Plimpton

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

— Charlotte Cotton

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job…

— John Hall Wheelock

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want…

— Robert Stone

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

— Roger Bacon

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

— Bill Walsh

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

— Doug Larson

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting…

— Manning Marable