Editors Quotes - Page 16

• I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Years, Musician

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.

  Nat Hentoff

  Political, Males, Female

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and [my wife Margot] always also conjured that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Monday, Couple, Mean

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Racist, Pressure

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Years, Magazines

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Cheer, War

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

  Elie Wiesel

  Communication, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

  Shirin Neshat

  Artist, Editing, Can Do

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

  Len Wein

  Art, Love You, Work Out

  Source: collider.com

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• Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

  Alex Webb

  Ideas, Trying, Want

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• Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.

  John Creasey

  Writing, Ideas, Giving

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• I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

  Shane McCrae

  Thinking, Causes, Ridiculous

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

  Dean Koontz

  Pages, Would Be, Cost

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• 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.

  Lynsey Addario

  Complaining, Pakistan, Ifs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, People, Use

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• Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, May, Events

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• Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

  JoAnn Ross

  Children, Heard, Internals

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• I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

  Anthony Edwards

  Spoiled, Theater

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• The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

  Norman Mailer

  Memories, Doe, Losing

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.103, Random House

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• It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Understanding, Wire

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• I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as I'm writing the chapter. I try to go for maximum surprises in PLL, stuff you don't see coming. It's a lot of fun!

  Sara Shepard

  Fun, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Rivers, Long

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.

  Roy Stryker

  Brother, Believe, Littles

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• Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

  Eugene Richards

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

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• I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

  Robert Polidori

  Weather, Forget, Clean

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