Editor Quotes

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain

Time, Writing, Write

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard

Business, Person, Whose

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy

Love, Mother, Expect

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
Julian Assange

Legal, Different, Fighting

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.
Jerry Seinfeld

Proud, Write, She

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Someone, Wheat, Chaff

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson

Become, Keep, Wanted

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!
Susan Orlean

Spring, Might, Quite

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler

Enough, Write, Anyone

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
V. S. Naipaul

Good, She, Writer

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.
Ron Fournier

Politics, Best, Moving

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Dan Rather

Great, Important, Public

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
James Wolcott

American, Dead, Voice

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Sarah Palin

Blood, Hands, Inspire

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
Halle Berry

Through, President, Actions

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Irwin Shaw

Good, Writing, Talking

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward

Deep, Name, Washington

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

Book, Books, House

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.
Tim Roth

Enjoy, After, Challenge

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
Jane Smiley

Book, Writing, Him

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
Len Wein

Food, Working, Another

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Len Wein

Between, Write, Difference

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.
Evan Davis

Mean, Two, Actually

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.
Michael Sheen

Home, Else, Actor

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
Shimon Peres

Teacher, Youth, House

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Tina Fey

School, Girl, Sense

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!
Beyonce Knowles

Love, Beauty, Mother

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
John Barton

Writer, Role, Literary

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

Dad, Actually, Writer

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony

Down, Second, Maybe

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