Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

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.

Sam Rockwell

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

Thomas Carlyle

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of 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.

Tucker Max

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Tarsem Singh

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.

Stephen Ambrose

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Michael Pollan

But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

Margaret Haddix

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Pat Oliphant

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

John Sayles

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Flannery O'Connor

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Fran Lebowitz

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.

George Plimpton

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

Indira Varma

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

Indira Varma

I depend on good editors and a good director.

Phillip Noyce

But usually you're waiting around for these editors to do stuff and you get really bored. It was better for them to wait for me!

Israel Zangwill

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

Jay Roach

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

Chris DiBona

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

Jean de La Fontaine

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Jennifer Beals

I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

Howard Shore

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

Howard Rheingold

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.