William Bastone quotes

“Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell,”
-- William Bastone

Source : "Celebrity Worship Syndrome Abounds" by Keturah Gray, abcnews.go.com.

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“The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.”
-- William Bastone

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“There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.”

“I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.”

“The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.”

“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”

“LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.”

“It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.”

“The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.”

“If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

“I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.”

“The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.”