Quotes and Sayings About Editors

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Business #Writing #Editors

In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.
-- Eli Pariser

#Editors #Together #Information

I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.
-- Elizabeth Sims

#Writing #Character #Editors

Never throw up on an editor.
-- Ellen Datlow

#Writing #Editors

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Thinking #Editors #Long

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
-- Eric Alterman

#Stars #Editors #Analysis

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.
-- Evan Davis

#Senior #Mean #Editors

There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.
-- Evan Thomas

#Editors #White #Long

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
-- Fanny Fern

#Believe #Past #Editors

Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.
-- Fareed Zakaria

#Mistake #Media #Editors

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
-- Felix Dennis

#Editors #Age #Staffing

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 #People #Pet

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
-- Fran Tarkenton

#New York #Book #Editors

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
-- Francoise Sagan

#Writing #Editors #Accepted

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.
-- Frank Rich

#Taken #Media #Editors

Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down
-- Fred Hoyle

#Running #Editors #Trying

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
-- Fred Saberhagen

#Kings #Book #Editors

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
-- Frederic G. Kenyon

#Editors #Produce #Aim

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you...
-- Gail Simone

#Jobs #Editors #Names

Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.
-- Gail Simone

#Lying #Writing #Editors

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
-- Galen

#Running #Editors #Together

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.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Editors #Expectations #Trying

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Writing #Ignorance #Editors

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
-- George Plimpton

#Editors #Biographies #Pleasure

I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
-- Gerald Seymour

#Writing #Editors #Trying

I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.
-- Gordon Willis

#Believe #Cutting #Editors

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.
-- Graydon Carter

#Editors #Information #Lawyer

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

#Issues #Editors #Interesting

The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it.
-- Greg Gutfeld

#Talking #Editors #Differences

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
-- H. G. Wells

#Passion #Writing #Editors