Editors Quotes · Page 8

I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care…

— Lauren Grodstein

I depend on good editors and a good director.

— Indira Varma

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But…

— Kevin Sessums

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what…

— Anna Quindlen

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

— Len Wein

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers…

— Gloria Steinem

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

— Bill Kovach

Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some…

— John Gardner

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

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do…

— Kevin Sessums

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

— Topher Grace

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies…

— Mark Twain

Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith,…

— Kenny Ausubel

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Diana Athill

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty…

— Stephenie Meyer

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

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job…

— John Hall Wheelock

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet."…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Editors are licensed to be curious.

— William Zinsser

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 enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I…

— Peter Ackroyd

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary…

— John McGahern

“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not…

— Stephen King