Editors Quotes · Page 14

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

— William Whitworth

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all…

— Louis Sachar

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

— David Chase

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the…

— Piers Anthony

You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will…

— Mark Helprin

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of…

— Fran Tarkenton

51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They…

— Tariq Ramadan

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy…

— Lynn Abbey

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even…

— Ben Bradlee

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something…

— Tim Cahill

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year…

— Candace Bushnell

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique.…

— Jason Katims

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done…

— Boman Irani

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,…

— Judith Krantz

I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an…

— Richard Branson

It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different…

— Todd Farmer

There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a…

— Joe Dante

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of…

— Astra Taylor

I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a…

— F. Paul Wilson

On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard…

— Mara Liasson

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and…

— Bill Watterson

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…

— Douglas Hofstadter

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

— Guy Kawasaki

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you…

— Mike Royer

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all…

— Joe McNally

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

— Mary Norris

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Rebekah Brooks

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

— Gregory Rabassa

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors…

— Vince Gilligan

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such…

— JoAnn Ross

“Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.”

— Frank Black

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

— William Zinsser

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

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one…

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

— Frederick Busch