Editors Quotes - Page 18

• There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

  Julie Walters

  Running, Baby, School

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Passion, Writing, School

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I was the Playmate editor for Playboy for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Editing, Years

  "Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Children, Teenager, Book

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• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

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• My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

  Sara Zarr

  Country, Book, Publicity

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr" by Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new.

  Justin Bieber

  Video, Stuff, Golfers

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• Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Writing, Vogue Magazine, Experts

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• There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

  Mary Norris

  Phases, Obsessed, Hyphens

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.

  Peter Farb

  Mother, Expression, Letters

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.331, Vintage

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• I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

  D. B. Sweeney

  People, Film, Empty

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• 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

  Produce, Aim, Scholarly

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 142, 1949.

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• If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Artist, Stories, Let Me

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Ain't It Cool interview, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

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• It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

  Ben Bradlee

  Government, People, Care

  "Deep Throat Revealed: Ben Bradlee". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2005.

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• That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

  Victoria Laurie

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Missing, Stories

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.297, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.

  John Romita, Sr.

  Encouragement, Book, Artist

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• Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.

  Greg Pak

  Book, Reading, Character

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• To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

  William Zinsser

  Art, Writing, Ideas

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• My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work or the editor's work or the lens or the light or anything.

  Victor Levin

  Jobs, Light, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

  Topher Grace

  Writing, Directors, Stories

  "Topher Grace’s ‘Star Wars’ Edits Explained: Actor Discusses Editing Three Prequels Into One Film". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Reading, Writing, Reader

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• My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into 'Toy Story 3' and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 2010.

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