Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.
I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.
On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.
My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?
I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.
I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.
I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.