Quotes and Sayings about Editors
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Editors, Feet, Open)
"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Editors, Want, Writers)
"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
(Related: Books, Collaboration, Editors)
"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Editors)
"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Time, People, Beginning, Books, Career, Editors, Name, Publishing)
"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
(Related: Love, Idea, College, Editors, Literary, Numbers, Writers)
"I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Trust, Editors, Flattery, Giving, Questions, Secrets, Will, Woman)
"I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors."
- Connie Chung
(Related: Work, People, Editors, Years)
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: People, Man, Names, Old)
"I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: People, Editors, May, Will)
"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
- James Dickey
(Related: Time, Editors)
"There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Editors, Future, Internet, World)
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Editors, Writers)
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(Related: Money, Editors, Literary)
"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
(Related: Thought, Editors, Ideals, Resolution, Want, Word)
"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: God, Act, Editors, Hollywood)
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Memories)
"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
(Related: Ideas, Artist, Editors, Pretty, Writer)
"One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy."
- John Gardner
(Related: Time, Devil, Editors, Fight, Temptation)
"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
(Related: Work, Editors, Network, Pressure, Support, Troops)
"When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to."
- Thom Gunn
(Related: Being, Editors, First, Poems)
"The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our history."
- Richard Harwood
(Related: History, Nature, American, Cynicism, Editors, Enemy, Idealism, Journalism)
"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Business, Experience, Idea, Editors, Pretty)
"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Editors)
"Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information."
- Michael Isikoff
(Related: Editors, Information)
"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Editors)
"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
- Bill Joy
(Related: Community, Editors)
"Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest."
- Mark Kirk
(Related: Government, American, Children, Day, Debt, Interest, Today)
"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."
- Naomi Klein
(Related: Poor)
"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
(Related: Life, Successful, Editors, Myth, Talk)
"You're at the mercy of the editors' hands."
- Kelly LeBrock
(Related: Editors, Mercy)
"It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank."
- John George Nicolay
(Related: Confidence, Credit, Gold, Popular)
"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb."
- Lennart Nilsson
(Related: Editors)
"Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Advertising, Editors, Majority, May)
"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
- Daniel Okrent
(Related: Editors, Will)
"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."
- Daniel Okrent
(Related: Body, Editors, Public)
"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."
- Pat Oliphant
(Related: Editors, Fact)
"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
(Related: Editors)
"Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career."
- Mike Royko
(Related: People, Career, Editors, Public, Years)
"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."
- Fred Saberhagen
(Related: Selling, Books, Editors, Want)
"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
(Related: Brooks, Editors, Letters, Poems, Rejection, Right, Years)
"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."
- John Sayles
(Related: Work, Editors)
"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative."
- Robert Scheer
(Related: Conservative, Editors)
"Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad."
- Julius Schwartz
(Related: Editors, Writers)
"Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer."
- Joe Simon
(Related: Editors, Question)
"Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
(Related: Men, Editors)
"Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties."
- John Turner
(Related: Benefits, Law, Poor)
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we.""
- Mark Twain
(Related: People, Editors, Kings, Right)
"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
(Related: Editors, Machines, Word)
"I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt."
- Len Wein
(Related: Editors, Years)
"The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors."
- Edmund White
(Related: Editors, First)
"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
- Theodore White
(Related: Editors)
"Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can."
- Walter Jon Williams
(Related: Editors)
"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
(Related: Authority, Direction, Editors, Taste, Will)
"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"
- Terri Windling
(Related: Work, Technology, Editors, EnglFantasy, Writers)
"There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book."
- Terri Windling
(Related: Vision, Editors)
"I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into."
- Tobias Wolff
(Related: Work, People, Editors, Help)
"Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness."
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
(Related: Goals, Editors, Goodness, Heresy, Worry)
"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."
- Brock Yates
(Related: Career)