Quotes about editors
editors crime dullness
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. Josephus Daniels
editors two challenges
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. Liu Wen
editors feet tides
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. Lynn Abbey
editors video stuff
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new. Justin Bieber
editors people knows
Not too many people know who the editor is. Julius Schwartz
editors issues interesting
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. Graydon Carter
editors information lawyer
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.
editors judgments newspaper producers scripts tv
They will have to think through their scripts and make their own judgments just as newspaper editors and TV producers do.
editors trying pitching
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up. Jim Crace
editors giving safe
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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
editors very-good collaborators
A very good editor is almost a collaborator. Ken Follett
editors people certain
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
editors cities judgement
making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors. Margaret Atwood
editors people priests
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Michael D. Higgins
editors trying newspapers
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. Mark Twain
editors eggs bugs
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
editors scare citizens
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. Matt Drudge
editors clothes legs
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
editors giving perspective
Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies. Nicholas Stoller
editors people world
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. Mark Helprin
editors earth dirt
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Chris DiBona
editors people pet
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. Fran Lebowitz
editors publish
The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away. Ed Jones
editors holiday pressure rose understand
The editors have told Flemming Rose to take a holiday because no one can understand the kind of pressure he has been under. Carsten Juste
editors critics sympathetic
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Joyce Carol Oates
editors invisible novel
A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling
editors laughing hypocrisy
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Tom Rachman
editors magic painter
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. Sam Rockwell
editors needs peril
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. Robin Hobb
editors want might
As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.
editors ideas age
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard
editors trying agents
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. Walter Jon Williams
editors style answers
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. Voltaire