Cheaper Quote by Evan Davis

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

“Good editors are priceless.”

— Buffy Andrews

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a…

— Robert Gottlieb

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors…

— Michael Korda

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes,…

— Norman Cousins

I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as…

— Oliver Harris

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

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can…

— Warren E. Burger

“Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used…

— E. Nesbit

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker

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