Editor Quotes
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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.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
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With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
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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.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
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Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
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And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!
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"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.
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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.
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If I like a thing, then I know that millions will like it. My mind and my taste are so common that I’m the best editor.
