Quotes by Editors An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. Robert Gottlieb selflesseditorsstrong If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. Robert Gottlieb our-relationshipeditorsdifferent 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 editorswantmight People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons. Robert Mankoff editorsideasthinking 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 editorsweatherforget There is but one art, to omit. Robert Louis Stevenson editorsart I think you either have chemistry or you don't. If you could create chemistry in the editing room then there would be no films without chemistry, obviously, because there are a lot of good editors out there who'd be able to take care of that then if that's how it really worked. Robert Schwentke editorseditingthinking You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it. Robert Stone editorsregretwant I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team. Robin Furth editorsteamdark Procrustes was an editor. Robin Skelton editors When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. Robin Hobb perileditorsneeds He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. Robertson Davies fudgeautumneditors A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line. Rod Lurie rumoreditorsbook Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting story that their editor is going to like and that's going to further their careers, they're going to give you more ink and cover you. Roger Ailes editorsviewsjobs The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. Roger Ross Williams editorsimportantdirectors 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 editorsmissingkids I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Roger Ebert long-agoeditorswise Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go. Rosalie Maggio editorswantpeople When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them Rowan Pelling elderlyeditorsphones Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word. Roy Stryker editorsbrotherbelieve«2223242526272829303132»
