Editors Quotes

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
Mark Twain

Kings, Presidents, Editorial

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot

Writers, Failed

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

Two, Rejection, Off

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.
Christopher Hitchens

Stuff, Publishers, Showing

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David Ogilvy

May, Yes, Majority

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Men, Newspaper, Separate

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
Helena Bonham Carter

Film, Actor, Victim

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman

Pretty, Off, Artist

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
Jessica Lange

Life, Successful, Person

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Len Wein

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.
Johnny Vegas

May, Different, Young

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
Al Gore

Work, Support, Pressure

I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
Dan Rather

Respect, Today, Mistakes

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
C. S. Forester

Thought, Write, Word

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.
Steve Coogan

End, Happen, Public

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Stephen Ambrose

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
Eric Alterman

Great, Stars, Times

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
Julie Walters

Education, Women, God

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Money, Real, Line

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Francoise Sagan

Around, Write, Once

NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.
Juan Williams

Leadership, Design, Game

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.
James McGreevey

Gay, After, Public

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.
Piers Anthony

Bad, Done, Read

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
John Hodgman

Love, Find, Common

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
Garry Trudeau

Try, Paper, Clients

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams

Good, Someone, Why

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
Jonathan Carroll

Love, College, Idea

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
Bill Walsh

Word, Read, Paper

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
Galen Rowell

Someone, Together, Remember

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
Terri Windling

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