Editors Quotes - Page 26

• The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

  Tim Ferriss

  Book, Successful, Pitching

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• After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

  Ken Follett

  People, Certain, Including

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• I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

  Ron Fournier

  Moving, Reading, Writing

  "Ron Fournier to step down at National Journal" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required that designers have events to lure customers or editors or any of that - it was about a show. If there was a dinner or a party, people would go out after. New York nightlife was about late nights and dancing.

  Roopal Patel

  Fashion, New York, Party

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Fashion, Looks, Way

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  Indira Varma

  Directors, Good Directors, Depends

  "Indira Varma Interview HUMAN TARGET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

  Austin O'Malley

  Public Opinion, Politician, Sail

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• Uninvited criticism is insult.

  John L'Heureux

  Criticism, Insult, Critics

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• I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was an editor at Oxford at that time. We connected at a conference and over the course of lunch she told me about a wonderful new series she had just developed called Understanding Research.

  Patricia Leavy

  Book, Oxford, Lunch

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• It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

  Louis Silverstein

  Design, Doe, Paper

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• What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Want, Advertising

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

  George Orwell

  Country, Worst Enemy, Intellectual

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

  David Zinczenko

  Ideas

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• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Writing, Editing

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• For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website?

  Astra Taylor

  Kids, Writing, Insulting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.

  Robert Mankoff

  Want, Might, Realizing

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Book, Long

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• When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And it's interesting, because I know they're not trying to, but they end up pitching things that end up feeling like damsel-in-distress covers, where the tension comes from her needing to be rescued somehow. And it's something I immediately push back against.

  Cliff Chiang

  Book, Ideas, Interesting

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• Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

  Michael Wilbon

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Editing, Ouch, Neurosis

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, Acting and Directing, Editing His Performance, and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Reader

  "The Writing Life: An Interview with Karen Thompson Walker". Hazel & Wren Interview, www.hazelandwren.com. July 24, 2012.

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• An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

  Sam Rockwell

  Magic, Painter

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.

  David Sedaris

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, People, Half

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

  Harold Evans

  Sunday, Information Flow, People

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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