Editors Quotes
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
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 be the art director of Discover for many years.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.
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 blockheads.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.
One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
