Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constantin Stanislavski

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

Daniel Pipes

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Anthony Edwards

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Donald Davis

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Douglass North

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

Colleen McCullough

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

David Ogilvy

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

David Chase

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

David Benioff

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview

Kurt Vonnegut

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

Betty Friedan

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

Betty Friedan

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

Stephenie Meyer

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me.

Jo Nesbo

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

James Nachtwey

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

Garry Trudeau

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

Garrison Keillor

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

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.

Lynn Abbey

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Norman Rockwell

I used to sit in the studio with a copy of the (Saturday Evening) Post laid across my knees ... And then I'd conjure up a picture of myself as a famous illustrator and gloat over it, putting myself in various happy situations, surrounded by admiring females, deferred to by office flunkies at the magazines, wined and dined by the editor...

Helena Bonham Carter

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

Adlai Stevenson

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

This is about reporters who fell in love with their story and couldn't view it objectively. That is the job of editors and senior staff, to dampen journalistic enthusiasm that can't be supported by the facts.

Flannery O'Connor

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Jerry Pournelle

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

Chris DiBona

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

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.