Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.
There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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.
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.
All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.