Editors Quotes · Page 8

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

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

— Chris DiBona

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

— Tavi Gevinson

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

— Wally Wood

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

— Anthony Trollope

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be…

— Joseph Kanon

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

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even…

— Ben Bradlee

I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,…

— Michael Uslan

I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take…

— David Sedaris

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the…

— Leslie Jamison

Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great.…

— Greg Pak

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or…

— Anton Chekhov

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would…

— Fred Saberhagen

I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's…

— Donna Tartt

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as…

— Sara Shepard

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

— Mark Edward

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more you’ll enjoy your…

— Clinton Anderson

I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an…

— Richard Branson

It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different…

— Todd Farmer

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of…

— Astra Taylor

I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a…

— F. Paul Wilson

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…

— Douglas Hofstadter

As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

— Adrian Rogers

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

— Ken Follett

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

— Joyce Carol Oates

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

— Steve Martin

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

— George Plimpton

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

— Gene Fowler