Quotes by Editors Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film. Virginia Madsen editorsover-youjobs If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. Voltaire styleeditorsanswers An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator. Wally Wood dedicateddestroyingeditors It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. Walter Annenberg editorsindependentspecial I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. Walter Cronkite anchormannewseditors That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. Walter Jon Williams editorswantdoors Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. Walter Jon Williams agentseditorstrying 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 editorschoicesediting I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper. Wendell Pierce editorswritingbook That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno. Werner Herzog finding-yourselfeditorschoices Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing). Wilfrid Sheed editorspeopleyears The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread. Will Carleton editorseyehands Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know. Willem Dafoe raw-materialseditorsbeautiful Peace without justice is tyranny William Allen White editorsjusticepeace Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence. William Allen White editorswritingmean At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. William Banting editorsreflectiondoubt Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell. William Bastone magazineseditorsstills The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. William Faulkner editorsartistwriting I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap. William Gurstelle trackeditorsdifferent I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. I'm also a contributing editor at Popular Science and at Make Magazine. William Gurstelle editorsspecialbook«2324252627282930313233»
