Editorials Quotes - Page 5

• I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

  Grant Morrison

  Cutting, Careers, Editors

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.

  Richard Curtis

  Book, Writing, Media

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• Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Order, Two

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• One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

  Karl Kraus

  Clothes, Skins, Borders

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Book, Together, Proud

  "Pulp's Jarvis Cocker Appointed Editor-at-large at Faber & Faber". www.digitalspy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

  Michael Eisner

  Views, Background Noise, Appreciate

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• Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website.

  Lauren Conrad

  Media, Keys, Social

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• The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Media, Pages, Advertising

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

  Roger Mudd

  Sea, Judgement, Television

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• I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Character, Different, Want

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• The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

  Terri Windling

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Age, Chairs

  1964 UnderstandingMedia.

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• Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

  Janice Dickinson

  Different, Back In The Day, Advertising

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

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• I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

  Janice Dickinson

  Girl, Runway, Models

  "Janice Dickinson's Model Behavior". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.tvguide.com. June 26, 2006.

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• When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

  David Fincher

  Believe, Mean, People

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• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Long, Fans, Needs

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Community, Political, Paper

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

  Al Franken

  Wall, Mean, Thinking

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• I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  College, Men, Yale

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

  Tom Wolfe

  Thinking, People, Pages

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• Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

  Barack Obama

  Pages, Claims, Critics

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• I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Writing, Typewriters, Darkness

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• There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Needs, Looks

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Thinking, Pages

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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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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