Editors Quotes - Page 23

• I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

  Betty Friedan

  Trying, Magazines, World

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• It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.

  Todd Farmer

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: collider.com

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• Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Giving, Perspective, Office

  Source: collider.com

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• And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Editing, Breathing, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• [Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.

  Jay Carr

  Mean, Self, Pages

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• We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Civilization, Photographer, Curator

  "Charlotte Cotton: Surveillance Revisited". Interview with Nicole Miller, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2016.

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• I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

  Robert Polidori

  Weather, Forget, Clean

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• Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

  Eugene Richards

  Jobs, Real, Ideas

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

  Frances Wright

  Teacher, Religious, Book

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• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, People

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• Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.

  John Creasey

  Writing, Ideas, Giving

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• I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

  Shane McCrae

  Thinking, Causes, Ridiculous

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Fashion, Political

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.3302, e-artnow

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• The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

  Diane Wakoski

  Needs, Pages, Today

  Diane Wakoski (1980). “Toward a new poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• All science requires mathematics.
  [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

  Roger Bacon

  Science, Ideas, Mathematics

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• Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Secular

  Don Feder (1996). “Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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• Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

  Garry Wills

  Christian, Religious, Book

  Garry Wills (2013). “Under God”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

  Warren E. Burger

  Editing, Choices, Abuse

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

  Lynsey Addario

  Complaining, Pakistan, Ifs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, May, Events

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• It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Understanding, Wire

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• The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

  Norman Mailer

  Memories, Doe, Losing

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.103, Random House

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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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