Editors Quotes · Page 16

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell,

— William Bastone

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle…

— Mark Twain

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

— Topher Grace

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

— A. Scott Berg

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all…

— V. S. Naipaul

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or…

— Kelly Link

If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also…

— Chester Brown

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,'…

— Michael Ignatieff

Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is…

— Roy Stryker

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On…

— Garrison Keillor

[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate…

— Jay Carr

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think…

— Susie Bright

“When content scarcity was the norm, we could live with a minimum of context. In a limited market, our editors became skilled…

— Hugh McGuire

Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate…

— Judith Regan

A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so…

— Rod Lurie

I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do…

— Nora Roberts

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is…

— Anonymous

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it…

— Mark Twain

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free…

— Michael Parenti

I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,…

— Nat Hentoff

I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor…

— Diana Vreeland

I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level…

— Lydia Davis

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

— Jane Haddam

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

— John Farrar

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

— Helen McCloy

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

— Matt Drudge

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes…

— Anonymous

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The…

— Brian Selznick

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good…

— Will Allison

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I…

— Ron Fournier

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let…

— Charles Frazier

Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject…

— Alex Webb

There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was…

— Nina Garcia

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem…

— Alexander McQueen

Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed…

— Walter Murch

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you…

— Anne Lamott

Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact,…

— X. J. Kennedy