Editors Quotes

471 Editors quotes by 384 unique authors

On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. — David Brock
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you… — Christopher Darden
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. — Matt Drudge
I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity… — Suzy Menkes
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with… — Joseph Kanon
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published,… — Barry B. Longyear
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of… — Garrison Keillor
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a… — Jo Nesbo
While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I decided I had… — Mark Edward
As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel. — Adrian Rogers
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not… — Anne M. Mulcahy
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic,… — Evan Thomas
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should… — Jerry Spinelli
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be… — Lincoln Child
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
An editor's job is to take something great and make it good. — Kinky Friedman
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words… — Marcel Proust
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not… — Lord Chesterfield
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. — Colleen McCullough
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more… — Mike Royko
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. — James Dickey
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to… — Jane Haddam
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. — Jane Haddam

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