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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
— Mark Twain
They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.
— Anna Wintour
It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".
— Bernard Haisch
Editors, huh? By golly ... you're right. They're everywhere. What is this place? Heaven?
— Rainbow Rowell
Remember,the most important relationship you can ever have is with yourself"-Dr.Phil
— The Editors Of O, The Oprah Magazine
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
— William Faulkner
The unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
— Helen McCloy
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— Jack Canfield
The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.
— Neil Postman
We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in
— Jonah Lehrer
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Editors are licensed to be curious.
— William Zinsser
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
— Voltaire
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
— Walter Cronkite
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
— Frederic G. Kenyon
As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.
— Jack Dorsey
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
— Ken Follett
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
Never throw up on an editor.
— Ellen Datlow
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
— George Herbert
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
— Bill Keller
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
— Robin Hobb
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
— Jack Kirby
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
— Matt Drudge
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
— Michael Crichton
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
— George Bernard Shaw
Girls, we're fiction editorswe know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget. — Stephanie Bond
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.
— Ru Freeman
Procrustes was an editor.
— Robin Skelton
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
— Brian K. Vaughan
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
— Christopher Darden
The Difference between Writers and Editors.Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end. — Roy A. Higgins
ignorant editors and a smothering patron - produced the sort of dependence that affects,
— Zora Neale Hurston
I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.
— Steve Coogan
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
— Judith Guest
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
— Robert Burchfield
Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.
— Ellen J. Barrier
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
— William Zinsser
I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.
— David Robinson
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
— Rik Mayall
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
— John Farrar
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
— Charlotte Cotton
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
— David Brock
When in doubt, delete it.
— Phil Crosby
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
— Joyce Carol Oates
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
— Daniel Okrent
I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.
— Vincent Gallo
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
— Donald Davis
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
— Edna Buchanan
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
— Victor LaValle
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
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.
— John McWhorter
An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.
— Kinky Friedman
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
— Peter Landesman
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
— Michael D. Higgins
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.
— John Hall Wheelock
the messages are nothing like those Thompson reported
— The Editors Of FATE
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
There is but one art, to omit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
— Stephen Ambrose
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
— Robert Gottlieb
Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.
— Eddie Mair
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...
— Thorstein Veblen
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.
— H.L. Mencken
Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.
— Suzanne Steele
I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.
— Stockard Channing
You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
— Kelly LeBrock
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
— Maxwell Perkins
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
— Theodore White
I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
— Norman Mailer
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
— Thomas Carlyle
By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.
— Don Feder
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.
— Sam Rockwell
In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.
— Elton Trueblood
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
— Arthur Christiansen