Quotes of: Editors Keyword

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.

V. S. Naipaul

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

John Frankenheimer

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

Daniel Okrent

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

Ed Asner

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

Bobbi Romans

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Bob Woodward

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

George Plimpton

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Jeffery Deaver

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Jasper Fforde

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

John Gardner

Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us or to reject us.

Stefano Tonchi

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Peter Davison

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

Bill Russell

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

Terri Windling

In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

J. I. Packer

What editors are obliged to appear to say that want from women is actually what their want from women.

The Beauty Myth

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

Joe Swanberg

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

Mandorla

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

P. J. O'Rourke

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

Randall Jarrell

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

Ricky Jay