Quotes About Editor

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.

I've always been drawn more to film. But 'Bloodline,' to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.

En la antigua Roma, dice la Hermana Justiciera, en el Coliseo, el editor era el hombre que organizaba los deportes sangrientos que eran la forma principal de mantener a la gente pacificada y unida. De ahí es de donde viene realmente la palabra editor. Hoy día, nuestro editor planea el menú de asesinatos, violaciones, incendios provocados y asaltos que hay en la portada del periódico del día.

The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

thank the Society for Neuroscience and the Editor of The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography for the invitation to share with neuroscientific colleagues,

EDITOR... A person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

añoraba a su anterior editor, que decía preferir la novela imperfecta de un escritor con talento, que la novela perfecta de un escritor mediocre. En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambiela vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.

I got into journalism, actually, when I started my graduate program at Portland State and ended up becoming the multimedia editor of the student paper and covered very uninteresting stories on campus: this culture event, dance night.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.