Editor Quotes

317 quotes by 271 authors

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,… — Samuel Johnson
Never throw up on an editor. — Ellen Datlow
Everyone needs an editor. — Timothy Foote
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The… — Ernest Hemingway
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 he is advertising… — Russell Lynes
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be… — Ray Bradbury
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield
We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. — Joel Spolsky
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor… — Kyle MacLachlan
I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public… — Daryl Hannah
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. — Scott Pelley
I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job. — Vincent Gallo
The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. — Bill O'Reilly
I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something… — Ramsey Campbell
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator. — Wally Wood
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. — Bill Nye
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts… — C. D. Broad
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political… — Ronald Reagan
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley

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