Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fran Lebowitz

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

George Plimpton

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

Jean Cocteau

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

Jean de La Fontaine

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Annalee Newitz

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

I usually try to quote myself, but my editor ends up correcting my punctuation.

Maureen Dowd

Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers.

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

Israel Zangwill

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

Indira Varma

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

Indira Varma

I depend on good editors and a good director.