There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have… — Pat Oliphant Copy Share Image
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith,… — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
I think you either have chemistry or you don't. If you could create chemistry in the editing room then there would be… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up… — Jeffery Taylor Copy Share Image
Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters,… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Editors, huh? By golly... you're right. They're everywhere. What is this place? Heaven?” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
![“You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing, third-rate journalism. The great editors of the past from the New York Times and others, ladies and gentlemen, are spinning in their grave.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb5/donald-trump-18_editors_you-have-to-see-the-stories-the-new-york_651336.jpg)
![“I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy…” quote by Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a7/daniel-handler-1043_book_i-d-finished-the-first-two-books-and-the_2143218.jpg)
![“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer…” quote by Al Yankovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/69c/al-yankovic-3837_comic_well-i-ve-made-no-secret-of-my-life-long_1704983.jpg)
![“[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,'…” quote by Matt Fraction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/416/matt-fraction-20494_bars_a-comic-book-writers-union-will-never-ha_1232159.jpg)
