Be good Quote by Mark Twain

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content…

— Mark Twain

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

— Arthur Christiansen

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

— Donald Davis

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may,…

— Elmer Davis

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

— Ernie Harwell

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

— Sydney Schanberg

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

— Henry David Thoreau

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me…

— Michael Connelly

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

— Thomas Carlyle

In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.

— Michael Wolff