Quotes of: Editors Keyword

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elliott Erwitt

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Jane Haddam

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

Rik Mayall

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Ryan Lilly

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

Meg Rosoff

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

Carine Roitfeld

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Walter Jon Williams

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as guest managing editor, and because she was kept fast at her desk when the rest of us were allowed to fool around….I remember...

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight inkling of beauty and reality. This is most discoura...

Leonard S. Marcus

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

Scott Pelley

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

T.S. Eliot

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

Khaled Hosseini

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

Kyle MacLachlan

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

Kevin Rose

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

Lynne Truss

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

Len Wein

Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.

Mary McFadden