Editors Quotes

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

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

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.

Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team.

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

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

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

Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my editor, Eduardo Serrano, who kept telling me various scenes should be longer.

Movies are an editor's medium.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

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.

One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Great poets are great copy editors.

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock."— Michelle Tea, "Paris: A