Editors Quotes
- It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
- Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
- 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
- Uninvited criticism is insult. — John L'Heureux
- Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. — Donald Davis
- It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on". — Bernard Haisch
- It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he… — Unknown Author
- I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our… — John F. Kennedy
- The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a… — Tony Hillerman
- What editors are obliged to appear to say that — Naomi Wolf
- A very good editor is almost a collaborator. — Ken Follett
- I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. — Jeffery Deaver
- All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting… — MaryJanice Davidson
- I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write… — MaryJanice Davidson
- At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me… — William Banting
- Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up. — Jim Crace