Top 515 Editors Quotes & Sayings

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

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.

As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

I think a lot of people have the idea of an editor being someone who comes in like a dictator, and says, "You can't have that scene." And it never is like that - or perhaps some editors are like that and they're assholes, and they're not good editors. A good editor actually says, "I respect you" and they understand that you have a vision and they're actually trying to help you realize it.

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

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

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

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

There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.

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

Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don't know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they're always looking for something new.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

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

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared.

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

Honestly, I've never had anybody with 'Teen Mom' ever be anything but great to me. Except the editors - they suck. Everybody from the crew, I love them, they're like family to me... I've never had a problem with any of them. Except the editors.

Not many poets have editors.

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

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Editors are licensed to be curious.

I've been mentored by editors who encouraged me to be constructive and never cruel.

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

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

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

I would rate my TV football skills as an amazing achievement by the editors.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

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

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

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

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

With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.