Editors Quotes · Page 7

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

— Tucker Max

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

— Richard Stallman

“General Mills Editorial Director: Jeff Nowak Publishing Manager: Christine Gray Editors: Karen”

— Anonymous

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

— Walter Jon Williams

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

— Steven Pressfield

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

— Robin Hobb

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

— Dave Barry

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

— Yosa Buson

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But…

— Steven Sebring

“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.”

— Diana Athill

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for…

— Bob Woodward

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director…

— Kyle MacLachlan

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

— Naomi Wolf

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call…

— David Robinson

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 query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me…

— Daniel H. Wilson

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

I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains…

— Ann Goldstein

In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other…

— Leonard Downie, Jr

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and…

— Mike Royko

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very…

— Dan Gilroy

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?…

— Steven Pressfield

When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given…

— Alfred Hitchcock

We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years…

— Rush Limbaugh

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new…

— Barry B. Longyear

The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and…

— Theodora Goss

And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested…

— Bob Colacello

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has…

— Lawrence Venuti

I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so…

— Dave Barry

While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I…

— Mark Edward

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

— Steven Price

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

— William Faulkner

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

— John O'Hara

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

— Alice Mattison