Editor Quotes

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

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.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

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.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

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

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Movies are an editor's medium.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

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

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'

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

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.

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.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.