Quotes on Editors

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

Author: Ben Bradlee

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Author: Matt Drudge

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Author: T. Eliot

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.

Author: Laura Hillenbrand

Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.

Author: Michael Isikoff

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

Author: Randall Jarrell

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

Author: Kelly LeBrock

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Author: Lennart Nilsson

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

Author: Daniel Okrent

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Author: Pat Oliphant

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

Author: Galen Rowell

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

Author: Julius Schwartz

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.

Author: Joe Simon

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

Author: Bill Walsh

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Author: Len Wein

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

Author: Edmund White

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Author: Theodore White

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Author: Walter Williams