Editors Quotes

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

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

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.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

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.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

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

Anyone who can not write should.

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

As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

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.

Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

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

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

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

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

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

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

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

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.

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

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

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

Not too many people know who the editor is.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.