Editors Quotes · Page 5

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

— Jacqueline Winspear

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

— Christopher Hitchens

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

— Randall Jarrell

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

— Anthony Hopkins

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

— Steve Coogan

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

— Norman Mailer

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

— Donald Davis

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

— P. J. O'Rourke

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do…

— Donald Davis

I have some friends, most of them are writers or editors, whose recommendations I trust blindly. There are some critics, too, whom…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no…

— Ken Auletta

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to…

— Bill Keller

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the…

— Jackie Kennedy

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

— Mark Twain

I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for…

— Alber Elbaz

As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are…

— Elie Wiesel

Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to…

— Crawford Kilian

The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever…

— Alice Sebold

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there…

— Nicholas Stoller

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

— Betty Friedan

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without…

— Eric Alterman

What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC…

— Mark Waid

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 think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted…

— James Keller

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much…

— George Bernard Shaw

The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer…

— Eric Heisserer

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know…

— Geneva Overholser

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where…

— J. K. Rowling

There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no…

— Alex Stapleton

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

— Josephus Daniels

It takes a lot of time and good editors, which luckily we have, to make me look like Jamie Tartt.

— Phil Dunster

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

— William Raspberry

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

— Bill Joy

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

— William Collins

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

— Theodore White

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

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

— Jack Kirby