Editor Quotes - page 8

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. (Karen Thompson Walker)
As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief. View quote
Kathryn Minshew
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. View quote
Leslie Cockburn
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. View quote
Lynn Shelton
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. View quote
Lynne Truss
Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing. View quote
Laurie Metcalf
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. View quote
Alfred A. Knopf
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. View quote
Eric Brown
I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were. View quote
Jeffrey Brown
Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer. View quote
Joe Simon
I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script. (Johnny Crawford)
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs. View quote
Kamal Ahmed
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema. View quote
Luc Dardenne
Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store. View quote
Mary McFadden
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again. View quote
Michael Arndt
I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'. View quote
Michael Wolf
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. View quote
Mort Walker
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me. View quote
Nate Berkus
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. View quote
Peter Davison
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world. View quote
Peter Davison
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. (Ricky Jay)
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words. View quote
Ron Shock
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' View quote
Ruth Glick
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor. View quote
Steven Price
I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites. View quote
Suzy Menkes