Quotes by Editors I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. William H. Gass editorshabitwriting It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen. William Mapother editorsfeetboys That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control William Monahan digital-revolutioneditorspast Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number. William Raspberry editorsphonesnumbers On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's. William Safire editorsyalebook Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. William Targ editorswritingdiscovery An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. William Thomas Stead editorsdemocracykings All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. William Zinsser striveeditorswant 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 editorswritingart Editors are licensed to be curious. William Zinsser curiouseditors I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor. Wolf Blitzer editorsneeds My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. Woody Herman editorsclaimsfame Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end? Yao Ming embarrassing-questionseditorshands The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors. Yosa Buson editorssummerspring I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre. Yuriy Tarnawsky editorsuseediting I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion] is a little bit more disorganized. But it's exciting for me because, when you're a performer, there is a fashion element. Zachary Cole Smith editorsfashionmom When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. Zadie Smith editorsreligiouswriting There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace). Zygmunt Bauman editorsresponsibilitytwo Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors. Robert Weinberg trulyweirdeditorsstuff Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. Robert Gottlieb assumelikeeditors«2324252627282930313233
