Editors Quotes

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as a critic - by editors, by readers.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.