Advertising Quote by David Ogilvy

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

— David Robinson

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the…

— John Gardner

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom line editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

— Maxwell Perkins

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

— Bill Joy

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many…

— Ryan Holiday

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

— H. L. Mencken

I think a lot of people have the idea of an editor being someone who comes in like a dictator, and says, "You can't…

— Cheryl Strayed