Editor Quotes

317 quotes by 268 authors

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He… — Jane Smiley
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly… — Zadie Smith
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into… — Steven Spielberg
It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional… — Andre Leon Talley
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. — Alvin Toffler
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working… — Len Wein
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I… — Len Wein
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The… — James Wolcott
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,… — Tom Wolfe
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. — Bob Woodward
I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in… — Alber Elbaz
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. — Tucker Max
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the… — Howard Rheingold
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with… — Mark Twain
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my… — J D Salinger
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell… — Natasha Trethewey
I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger].… — Neil Gaiman
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. — David Benioff

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