Top 1200 Magazine Editors Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.
In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I'll pay the price.
Sometimes you're talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and trust that the editors and the animators are going to make it all convincing to the audience. You have to pull a lot from within.
There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.
You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
Nobody cares if you're on the cover of a magazine!
Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.
A manifesto is different from a magazine.
Magazine articles are the new books.
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'
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.
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.
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 have 'Parents' magazine in my home.
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.
I'm not interested in being in 'Heat Magazine.'
All science requires mathematics.
[Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
During the 2016 campaign, editors and bookers at media outlets claimed they couldn't find any good writers or TV pundits to discuss the appeal of Trump. That was always a lie.
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across multiple titles.
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.
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
