Editors Quotes · Page 15

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as…

— Paul Johnson

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

— Keith Rabois

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every…

— Bill Walsh

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

— Toni Jerrman

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

— Carine Roitfeld

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

— John McWhorter

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

— Jeffery Deaver

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but…

— Gary Wolf

Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are…

— Robert Asprin

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't…

— Gail Simone

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment…

— Marcia Angell

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your…

— Thakoon Panichgul

There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took…

— Anita Diament

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for…

— Al Gore

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.…

— Vera Nazarian

For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those…

— Astra Taylor

I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview…

— Caitlin Moran

I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too…

— Toni Morrison

That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're…

— Victoria Laurie

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to…

— Stephen Hunter

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…

— E. M. Forster

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different…

— Donald Ray Pollock

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they…

— Nicholas Sparks

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

— Don Feder

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

— Kevin Rose

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within…

— Emma Donoghue

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left…

— Anonymous

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

— John Jakes

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…

— Toni Morrison

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked…

— David Simon

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript…

— Judith Thurman

If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn't have even nominated him.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the…

— Sylvia Kristel

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

— Fanny Fern

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.

— Edna Buchanan