Editors Quotes - Page 22

• Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Skills, Truth Is, Acquire

  "Like Mother Like Daughter: PW Talks with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella". Interview with Linda M. Castellitto, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more you’ll enjoy your partnership with your horse. That’s why I was excited to see the editors of MyHorse Daily offer these free guides packed with information on topics from deworming programs to safe fencing options. Go ahead, take a look mate, no matter your horse lifestyle there’s something for everyone.

  Clinton Anderson

  Horse, Believe, Leader

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• Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.

  William Bastone

  Magazines, Stills, Sells

  "Celebrity Worship Syndrome Abounds" by Keturah Gray, abcnews.go.com.

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• But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

  Betsy Lerner

  Eye, World, Reader

  Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.122, Penguin

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• In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate.

  Leonard Downie, Jr.

  War, Government, Effort

  "The Obama Administration and the Press" by Leonard Downie Jr., cpj.org. October 10, 2013.

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• Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

  John Farrar

  Produce, Great Author, Publishers

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• EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Sight, Goal

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• That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said 'okay, call it the God particle', and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading.

  Peter Higgs

  Jobs, Thinking, Names

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather.

  Simon Jenkins

  Children, Lying, Reality

  "The state has only aided our seasonal spates of thuggery" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2007.

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• The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.

  Kathryn Flett

  America, Years, Way

  "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Different, Our Relationship, Ifs

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• An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Strong, Selfless, Strong Minded

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• Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

  Irving Penn

  Love, Sweet, Nice

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• General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many parts of the world and is clearly destined to continue developing well into the twenty-first century. Translation studies brings together work in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, literary study, history, anthropology, psychology, and economics. This series of books will reflect the breadth of work in translation studies and will enable readers to share in the exciting new developments that are taking place at the present time.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Book, Discipline, Psychology

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• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Giving Up, Writing, Trying

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• In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

  Michelle Malkin

  Suicide, Writing, Gun

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• There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Writing, Long

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• So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Succeed, Magazines

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• "I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

  James Keller

  Morning, Fall, Home

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• Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

  John Updike

  Struggle, Class, Doe

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 30, 2014

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• I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Should Have, Needs

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• If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced that they are right (though you are not to be ashamed or discouraged for a minute, but keep on writing).

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, May

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

  Barry S. Strauss

  College, Rose, Dawn

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Opening Up, Choices

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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