Editors Quotes - Page 26

• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  Elayne Boosler

  Cutting, Space, Shrinking

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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

  Jenna Bush

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

  Meg Cabot

  Writing, Effort, Input

  Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

  Evan Davis

  Senior, Mean, Two

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• I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

  Steve Coogan

  Profile, Ends, Newspapers

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• After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

  Ken Follett

  People, Certain, Including

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• I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

  Ron Fournier

  Moving, Reading, Writing

  "Ron Fournier to step down at National Journal" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

  Anthony Hopkins

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing 'Hitchcock' and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of 'Noah'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Home, Writing, Wife

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• If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Creativity, Helping Others

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

  James McGreevey

  Eye, Gay, Fields

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• There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

  Graydon Carter

  Issues, Interesting, Together

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• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Feminine, Publishers

  "VS Naipaul finds no woman writer his literary match - not even Jane Austen" by Amy Fallon, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2011.

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• 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!

  Susan Orlean

  Block, Spring, Garden

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control

  William Monahan

  Past, Digital Revolution, Ties

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

  Tim Ferriss

  Book, Successful, Pitching

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• 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.

  Graydon Carter

  Information, Lawyer, Revelations

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• I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

  Mark Twain

  Trying, Newspapers, Be Good

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Publishing House, Certain

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• I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

  Dorianne Laux

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Admire

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show.

  Liu Wen

  Two, Challenges, Chinese

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• One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

  Toni Jerrman

  Needs, Opinion, Persons

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Pieces, Digital, Used

  Source: www.discdish.com

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