Editor Quotes

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. (Elbert Hubbard)
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. View quote
Richard Stallman
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. View quote
Ring Lardner
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. View quote
Bill Joy
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. View quote
E. B. White
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. View quote
Mark Twain
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. View quote
Bill Joy
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. View quote
Brian Selznick
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. View quote
David Benioff
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. (Kurt Loder)
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. View quote
Will McDonough
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today. View quote
Scott Pelley
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference. View quote
O. Henry
I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe." View quote
Neil Gaiman
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. View quote
Bob Woodward
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. View quote
Michael Chabon
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. View quote
Irwin Shaw
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. (A. Scott Berg)
I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing. View quote
Peter Sis
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me. View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. View quote
Tim Roth
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. View quote
Philip K. Dick