Famous Quotes & Sayings

These newspaper editors should have exercised better judgment. This situation is ripe for exploitation by extremists.

Michael Gartner

As an editorial writer you are a reporter, using the facts to persuade as well as inform,

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Henry David Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.

Dan Rather

This was great reporting. I think the public should know that great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. And the role of the late Katherine Graham, who owned The Washington Post, is not to be underestimated.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

Dick Wolf

T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.

Amber Stevens

You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

Mark Twain

I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect

Mark Helprin

In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

Cynthia is one of the nation's most skillful editorial writers and commentators.

Mark Burnett

It's not only the talented editors and producers but also the machines,

Andy Dick

It's being edited as we speak. I think it might come out in the winter,

I've had neighbors and friends who have helped me, and I wrote letters to the editor to thank them, and those are published online, ... But that was a while back.

E. B. White

In the eight years I've been editor of 'Cosmo' I've learned so much and tried to use those lessons in my own life.

J. I. Packer

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.

James Dickey

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

Ethan Hawke

There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.

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.

Glen Hansard

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

Jay Roach

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

H. L. Mencken

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H. L. Mencken

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

Jennifer Beals

I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me.

Jim Crace

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

Howard Shore

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Rheingold

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

Ice Cube

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

I don't think any official should be editing prayer.

Jan Egeland

I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Jason Reitman

I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.