Editors Quotes - Page 3

• I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

  Jane Haddam

  Teacher, College, Magazines

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• Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Kings, Inspiration

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• It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

  Marcia Angell

  Believe, Two, Medicine

  "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption". www.nybooks.com. January 15, 2009.

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• Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Giving

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• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sorry, Book, Writing

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• The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

  Howard Stern

  New York, Choices, Lists

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• I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

  Michael Chabon

  Ideas, Wife, Three

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• Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

  Sarah Palin

  Blood, Hands, Inspire

  "Assange: WikiLeaks 'fearlessly publishing facts'". www.cnn.com. December 08, 2010.

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• It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

  Len Wein

  Vision, Stories, Chains

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

  Colleen McCullough

  Potters, I Can, Harry Potter

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• This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Appreciate, Rejection

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• Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Literature

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Thinking, Long

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• I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Perfectly Good, English Words

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• Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

  Judith Krantz

  Fashion, Jobs, Writing

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• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

  Robert E. Howard

  Ideas, Age, Magazines

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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• In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

  Julian Assange

  Moving, Fighting, Law

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  Jay Roach

  Track, Decision, Details

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

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• I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Fun, Animal, Two

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• I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stuff, Publishers

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• While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Sports, Stars, Book

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• There is but one art, to omit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art

  Letter to R. A. M. Stevenson, Oct. 1883

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• Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

  Joseph Addison

  Editing, Storm, Whirlwind

  'The Campaign' (1705) l. 291

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• Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

  John Sayles

  Stories, Stuff, Good Story

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