Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai Stevenson

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

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

D. B. Sweeney

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.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Robert Anton Wilson

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Robert A. Heinlein

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Steve Coogan

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

Tobias Wolff

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

V. S. Naipaul

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.