Quotes About Editor

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.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

The fourth issue would go to the printer tomorrow. He was not so happy with this one: there was no big controversy. He put that out of his mind for the moment and

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion.

For a former slave and then an orator and an editor whose political consciousness had awakened with the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850, who had seen the fate of the slaves bandied about in one political crisis after another, and who had struggled to sustain hope in the face of the Dred Scott decision's egregious denials, a resolute stand by the North against secession and the Slave Power was hardly a sure thing.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor.

I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.

In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.

If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.

I've been mentored by editors who encouraged me to be constructive and never cruel.

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.

Honestly, no editor ever said to me that [Forgotten] Realms fiction was targeted at the YA market, and I didn't think of it that way.

A worthy editor has one primary directive: to make the creative people look good. To do this, he must sometimes demand further work. He doesn't do it casually. Remember, more work for you means more work for him, too. If

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

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