Top Editors Quotes Collection

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Image of Richard Stallman
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
- Richard Stallman
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Image of Joyce Carol Oates
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
- Joyce Carol Oates
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Image of Jim Crace
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.
- Jim Crace
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Image of David Benioff
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
- David Benioff
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Image of Terri Windling
A good novel editor is invisible.
- Terri Windling
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Image of Christopher Paul Curtis
It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it. It's great to have your editor tell what her suggestions and ideas for the story are. It's great to explain to your editor why her ideas and suggestions are bizarre and to ask her why is she trying to ruin my story.
- Christopher Paul Curtis
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Image of Sam Rockwell
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.
- Sam Rockwell
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Image of Mark Waid
The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.
- Mark Waid
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Image of Evan Thomas
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.
- Evan Thomas
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Image of Woody Herman
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.
- Woody Herman
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Image of Robin Skelton
Procrustes was an editor.
- Robin Skelton
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Image of Edna Buchanan
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
- Edna Buchanan
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Image of Maxwell Perkins
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
- Maxwell Perkins
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Image of Eli Pariser
In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.
- Eli Pariser
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Image of Scott Pelley
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.
- Scott Pelley
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Image of Lorin Stein
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.
- Lorin Stein
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Image of Liu Wen
The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show.
- Liu Wen
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Image of Karen Thompson Walker
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
- Karen Thompson Walker
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Image of John L'Heureux
Uninvited criticism is insult.
- John L'Heureux
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Image of Donald Davis
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
- Donald Davis
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Image of Dorothea Benton Frank
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
- Dorothea Benton Frank
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Image of Alex Webb
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.
- Alex Webb
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Image of Lawrence O'Donnell
If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him.
- Lawrence O'Donnell
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Image of Wally Wood
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.
- Wally Wood
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Image of Alexander Chee
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.
- Alexander Chee
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Image of Alexander Chee
The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.
- Alexander Chee
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Image of Joseph Kanon
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.
- Joseph Kanon
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Image of Bill Kovach
The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.
- Bill Kovach
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Image of Rebekah Brooks
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
- Rebekah Brooks
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Image of Rebekah Brooks
I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.
- Rebekah Brooks
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Image of Tom Rachman
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
- Tom Rachman
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Image of David Zinczenko
I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.
- David Zinczenko
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Image of William Bastone
Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.
- William Bastone
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Image of Kathryn Flett
The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.
- Kathryn Flett
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Image of Louis Silverstein
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.
- Louis Silverstein
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Image of Rigoberto Gonzalez
I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.
- Rigoberto Gonzalez
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Image of Rigoberto Gonzalez
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.
- Rigoberto Gonzalez
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Image of Julian Schwinger
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.
- Julian Schwinger
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Image of John Farrar
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
- John Farrar
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Image of Rands
Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.
- Rands
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Image of Robert Gottlieb
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
- Robert Gottlieb
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Image of Lynsey Addario
If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
- Lynsey Addario
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Image of Julius Schwartz
Not too many people know who the editor is.
- Julius Schwartz
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Image of Susan Fiske
If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.
- Susan Fiske
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Image of Arthur Christiansen
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
- Arthur Christiansen
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Image of Anil Dash
It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.
- Anil Dash
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Image of Nicholas Stoller
Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.
- Nicholas Stoller
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Image of Michael D. Higgins
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
- Michael D. Higgins
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Image of Mary Norris
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
- Mary Norris
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