Editors Quotes · Page 27

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

— Judith Guest

The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961).…

— Anna Sui

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

— Carrie Fisher

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 pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

— Jenna Bush

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even…

— Linwood Barclay

The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently…

— Nina Garcia

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and…

— Betty Friedan

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year…

— Anna Quindlen

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

— David Simon

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

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this,…

— Robert Scheer

Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.…

— John Creasey

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

— William Faulkner

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

— Rebekah Brooks

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

— Kelly Link

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea…

— Laura Hillenbrand

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of…

— Diane Wakoski