Editors Quotes

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

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

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn't have even nominated him.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

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.

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

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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

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

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently is wrong. Now you're on TV, whether you want it or not.

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

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."