Editor Quotes

317 quotes by 271 authors

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in… — Jay Roach
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. — Bill Joy
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun… — Jack Prelutsky
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for… — Betsy Lerner
Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell, — William Bastone
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. — Robert Gottlieb
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! — Joyce Carol Oates
In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only… — Barry S. Strauss
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure… — Louise Brown
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already… — Anita Diament
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Donâ€™t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might… — David LaChapelle
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing.… — Tim Cahill
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be… — Kurt Vonnegut
"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I… — James Keller
So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make… — Richard Branson
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your… — Michelle Malkin

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