Top 515 Editors Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

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.

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

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.

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

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.

Alan Rusbridger is, to many, among the most admired newspaper editors of our time.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.

I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.

In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

The editors and the creators of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' they are so good at casting and at finding these young, beautiful lunatics to go on the show.

It takes a lot of time and good editors, which luckily we have, to make me look like Jamie Tartt.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.