Editor Quotes

317 quotes by 268 authors

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, â€If you want something to look interesting, donâ€™t light all of it. — Joe McNally
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be… — Nora Roberts
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely lifeâ€¦ Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. — David Mitchell
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorshipâ€”he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century… — Douglas Adams
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Elwyn Brooks White
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees… — Michael Pollan
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it… — Barbara Kingsolver
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice Iâ€™ve ever received: â€œChristopher, I think you should wait until youâ€™re… — Chris Colfer
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school… — Sylvia Plath
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it. — Ed Asner
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a… — Michael Arndt
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between… — Michael Arndt
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that… — Joe Swanberg
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. — Lynn Shelton
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away… — Stieg Larsson
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper. It gave me a… — Halle Berry

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