Editors Quotes · Page 6

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

— George Herbert

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...…

— Thomas Jefferson

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published,…

— Kate Cary

[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works…

— Jenna Bush

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

— Austin O'Malley

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

— David Brock

When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my…

— Tavi Gevinson

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

— Thomas Carlyle

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to…

— Tim Cahill

It's just about having faith in what I wrote and following through on the plan and making sure I get the pieces…

— David Robert Mitchell

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

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

— Victoria Chang

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with…

— Garry Wills

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Jim Crace

Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest…

— Susan B. Anthony

My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be…

— Victor Levin

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to…

— Daniel Pipes

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

— Jacqueline Winspear

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

— Oscar Wilde