Editors Quotes · Page 30

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the…

— John F. Kennedy

I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that,…

— Holly Madison

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

— Ashwin Sanghi

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms…

— Terri Windling

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and…

— Craig Finn

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how…

— Julius Schwartz

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy…

— Lynn Abbey

I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin…

— Viggo Mortensen

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Christopher Hitchens

If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you…

— Brenda Ueland

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

— Michael Crichton

I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The…

— Jack Kirby

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they…

— John Frankenheimer

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

— Louis C. K

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to…

— Tim Cahill

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

— Robert Gottlieb

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does…

— Louis Silverstein

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more…

— Howard Rheingold

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will…

— Mark Twain

As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.…

— J. Budziszewski

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all,…

— Barry S. Strauss