From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch,… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we… — Joe Simon Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying,… — Tarsem Singh Copy Share Image
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image