Top 1200 Magazine Editors Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Voice did not consider itself a conventional magazine. It took me awhile to realize that it was named The Voice for a reason. They wanted voices. At the time, good magazine stories were still believed to be written in the third person based on the false belief they were more objective. Of course some conventional stories require third person, but in the really interesting stories - the ones I got do to at The Voice and Esquire - were about subjectivity, subjectivities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

I had done an interview with 'Hello' magazine. In it, they asked me if I was going to marry Emily Blunt. Of course, what was I going to say? I said, 'Oh yeah I am going to marry her and I love her and all of this stuff.' It's true. I was making a joke. They said to me, 'Have you asked her?' I said, 'Have I? Maybe I am asking her through the magazine.'

I have made mention of something I've found incredible a lot of times. I'm gonna remind you of it again. A TIME magazine cover back in the mid-1990s. The cover story on that issue of TIME magazine had the following headline Shock: Men and Women are Actually Born Different." When I saw that the first time, I was astounded. I cite it often, because I need to ask you a question: What must you think, what must you believe if you come across research that tells you men and women are born different?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

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 first review our band ever got - when I was 17 years old and we had just released our first EP, and this tiny little magazine wrote a review on it, and for that month, we were the best album of the month, and we were also the worst album of the month. We won best and worst album of the month in the same magazine.

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

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

The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I think there's probably more room for making opinionated illustrations. There was a time when Time magazine and Newsweek would have a realistic painted cover. A friend of mine used to do a lot of those paintings and he was told by the art director at one point, we are switching to photography. It seems that if someone saw a painting on a cover, it took a while to do, it must be old news. Photography became more immediate.

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

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

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.

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

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