Editorials Quotes

• Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

  Gene Weingarten

  Strong, Opinion, Very Strong

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Magazines, Care

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

  Paul Conrad

  Ideas, Cartoon, Readership

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• If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  New York, Church, Culture

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• I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Cartoon, Magazines, Cases

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• Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

  Will Rogers

  Paper, Advertising, Forty

  "The Illiterate Digest".

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• Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

  Adam Gopnik

  Writing, Winning, Your Side

  "Facing History" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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• There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

  Robert Creeley

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Intimate

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• Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

  Mason Cooley

  Memories, Events, Currents

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• I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.

  Oliver Harris

  Editing, Balance, Would Be

  Source: bigother.com

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• All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and editorial content is a source of enrichment that we must support through appropriate public policies and protect from uniformity.

  Irina Bokova

  Book, Diversity, Support

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• Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

  Jesse Jackson

  Writing, Names, Columns

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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• The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

  Gene Weingarten

  Wall, Mean, Two Sides

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

  Mike Royko

  Strong, Powerful, Impact

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• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  Walter Murch

  Views, Film, Point Of View

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• When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

  Scott McCloud

  Heart, Criticism, Feedback

  "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired News Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.

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• There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

  Paul Conrad

  Issues, Cartoon, Looks

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• I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

  Kitty Kelley

  Jobs, Years, Four

  "Smudging a Senator’s Legacy" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

  Abe Burrows

  Humor, Able, Taste

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• Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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• It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Opposites, America, Interesting

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• If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.

  Hugh Hefner

  Long, Promise, Generations

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• I definitely take inspiration from runway trends but also throughout my travels, I see editorials all over in all of the different publications.

  Olivia Palermo

  Inspiration, Different, Trends

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Decision, Bigs, Curator

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