Editors Quotes · Page 9

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

— Jasper Fforde

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

— Roger Bacon

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

— Bill Walsh

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

— Doug Larson

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

— William Whitworth

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

— Victoria Chang

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

— Khaled Hosseini

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who…

— Dan Rather

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done…

— Boman Irani

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

— Louis C. K

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

— Philip K. Dick

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but…

— Gary Wolf

I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im…

— Christopher Darden

I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good…

— Andrew Gelman

Honestly, I've never had anybody with 'Teen Mom' ever be anything but great to me. Except the editors - they suck. Everybody…

— Dakota Meyer

Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm…

— Kate Christensen

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are…

— Jennifer Lee

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions…

— Jay Roach

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether…

— Russell Lynes

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.…

— Vera Nazarian

For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those…

— Astra Taylor

I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview…

— Caitlin Moran

I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too…

— Toni Morrison

That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're…

— Victoria Laurie

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…

— E. M. Forster

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different…

— Donald Ray Pollock

A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so…

— Rod Lurie

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

— Alexander Chee

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

— Mary Norris

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

— David Benioff

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.

— Rebekah Brooks

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

— Gregory Rabassa

“Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.”

— Frank Black