Dangerous Quote by Irwin Shaw

Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like its actually…

— Alex Wagner

One of the things that's great about writing for a magazine is that every week you get to be a different person. You're writing…

— Hilton Als

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

— Fran Lebowitz

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

— Carine Roitfeld

Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never…

— Ron Rosenbaum

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

— Fran Lebowitz

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

— William Whitworth

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine…

— Hilton Als

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

— Susan Orlean

Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.

— Michael Kupperman

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

— Dave Eggers