Editors Quotes · Page 15

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have…

— Pat Oliphant

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

— Dave Eggers

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no…

— Ken Auletta

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

— Anonymous

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new…

— Bill Keller

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into…

— Jim C. Hines

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.…

— Ted Dekker

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live…

— Bill Watterson

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your…

— Kerry Bishe

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that…

— Ernest Hemingway

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented…

— Jane Smiley

There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no…

— Alex Stapleton

I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500…

— Harold Evans

To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,…

— Rupert Murdoch

Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal…

— David Gerrold

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were…

— Daniel Handler

The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and…

— Theodora Goss

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…

— Haruki Murakami

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my…

— Dominick Dunne

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

— Erin McKean

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

— Anonymous

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

— Amanda Hocking

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

— Michael D. Higgins

“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely…

— Jack Germond

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

— Seymour Hersh

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

— Bill Joy

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the…

— Christopher Darden

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden…

— Tiffany Madison

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and…

— Maxine Cheshire

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

— Maxwell Perkins

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

— Ed Asner

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

— Ru Freeman