Editors Quotes · Page 26

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in…

— Karen Thompson Walker

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources…

— Julian Assange

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put…

— Truman Capote

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

— Voltaire

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

— Garrison Keillor

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things…

— A. Scott Berg

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

— Naomi Wolf

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

Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to…

— Stefano Tonchi

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

— Chris DiBona

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

— Tucker Max

I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more you’ll enjoy your…

— Clinton Anderson

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

— Michael D. Higgins

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

— Joel Spolsky

I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually…

— Alex Raymond

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets…

— Samuel Johnson

And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested…

— Bob Colacello

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has…

— Julie Klassen

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

— Nat Hentoff

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there…

— Lynn Povich

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

— Robert Burchfield

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

I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write…

— Daniel Handler

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne.…

— Francoise Sagan