Quotes and Sayings About Editors

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.
-- A. Scott Berg

#Editors #Broken #Leap Of Faith

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Men #Editors #Wheat

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
-- Al Gore

#Editors #Support #Troops

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.
-- Alan Rusbridger

#Real #Flames #Editors

I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Dark #Thinking #Editors

I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Knowledge #Successful #Editors

I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.
-- Alex Raymond

#Dream #Art #Editors

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.
-- Alexander Wang

#Fashion #Editors #Sweaters

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.
-- Alexander Wang

#Fashion #Thinking #Editors

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.
-- Alice Sebold

#Unique #Editors #Use

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

#Writing #Errors #Editors

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Writing #Light #Editors

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Feet #Views #Editors

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Fashion #Editors #Looks

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.
-- Andrew Tobias

#New York #School #Editors

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

#Editors #Mediums

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
-- Anita Diament

#Book #Editors #Stories

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Life #Children #Editors

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.
-- Anna Sui

#Bible #Fashion #Editors

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.
-- Anna Wintour

#Fashion #Editors #Secret

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
-- Anne Lamott

#Writing #Artist #Editors

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy

#Dad #Editors #My Dad

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy

#Dad #Writing #Editors

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Editors

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
-- Arthur Christiansen

#Editors #Newspapers #Show Me

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
-- Ashwin Sanghi

#Writing #Editors #Suggestions

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.
-- Barry S. Strauss

#College #Editors #Rose

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
-- Ben Bradlee

#Thinking #Editors #Lazy

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".
-- Bernard Haisch

#Unique #Editors #Vantage Point

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
-- Betsy Lerner

#Eye #Editors #World