Editors Quotes · Page 4

When in doubt, delete it.

— Phil Crosby

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

— Wolf Blitzer

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

— Joseph Addison

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

— Len Wein

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

— Anonymous

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

— Bill Joy

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

— Anna Wintour

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have,…

— Fanny Fern

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

— Rand Paul

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".

— Bernard Haisch

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense…

— Garry Trudeau

Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original…

— Muriel Rukeyser

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it…

— Adrienne Rich

On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the…

— William Safire

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…

— Tobias Wolff

You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that…

— Lorin Stein

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like -…

— Jean Cocteau

I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to…

— Suzy Menkes

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's…

— Peggy Noonan

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say…

— Irving Penn

It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in…

— Arthur Plotnik

I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's…

— Lee Unkrich

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect…

— Richard Meltzer

A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things…

— B. C. Forbes

Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That…

— Werner Herzog

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

— Bill Joy

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

— Constantin Stanislavski