Top 1200 Letters To The Editor Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

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

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

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

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

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

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

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

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

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

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

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.

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

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

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

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

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

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

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!

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

I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids who want to be writers but who rarely come out and say so in their letters. You can tell by the questions they ask - How did you get your ?rst book published? How long do you spend on a book? So I guess those are the readers that I'm writing for - kids who enjoy that kind of book, because they're interested in history, in other people's lives, in what has happened in the world. I believe that they're the ones who are going to be the movers and shakers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

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

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

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