Top 976 Editor Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

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.

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

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

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

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

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

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

When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

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

Learning how to be editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' wasn't something that happened overnight.

I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

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

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

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

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

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

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

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

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.

I wrote 'The Assistants' while I was the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of 'Esquire.'

Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.