Top 1200 Newspaper Editors Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.

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.

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open to new people. None of that is true in the newspaper industry today. Print in general is pretty rugged. The good thing is that you can gain a foothold on the Internet because everybody has access to it, even things like Twitter - I mean, you can get a reputation for being funny pretty quickly on Twitter, on a blog, that kind of thing.

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

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

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

When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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