Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brock

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

Bill Nye

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

Bill O'Reilly

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Bill Walsh

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Bill Walsh

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

Bill Watterson

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Ed Helms

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

Arthur Christiansen

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

Betty Friedan

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

Betty Friedan

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

Bob Woodward

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Bob Woodward

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

This is about reporters who fell in love with their story and couldn't view it objectively. That is the job of editors and senior staff, to dampen journalistic enthusiasm that can't be supported by the facts.

Mark Burnett

It's not only the talented editors and producers but also the machines,

Diane Wakoski

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

E. B. White

As a New York-based sports editor put it to me,

Michael Gartner

As an editorial writer you are a reporter, using the facts to persuade as well as inform,

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Tanith Lee

An editor suggested to me I might try contemporary horror. At first this didn't appeal-then the idea arrived.

These newspaper editors should have exercised better judgment. This situation is ripe for exploitation by extremists.

I usually try to quote myself, but my editor ends up correcting my punctuation.

Annalee Newitz

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

Maureen Dowd

Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers.

Mark Twain

I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

Al Gore

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.'

Katharine Weymouth

Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.

Dean Koontz

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

Daniel H. Wilson

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

Kerry Bishe

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.