“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
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."”
Mark Twain
“Great poets are great copy editors.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“They've got an edit provision on there for the sake of editing when things are not accurate. I presume if they did not want people to edit, they wouldn't allow you to edit.”
Erich Mische
“These are not good times for political cartoonists. And I think this controversy makes it worse, because editors are timid and they see their cartoonists as bomb-throwers who need to be reined in.”
Daryl Cagle
“By the way, you wouldn't edit this paper, would you? I've sold it, and I'm looking for an editor. And I think you might be the guy.”
Hugh Johnson
“The biggest part of it is editing. It takes longer to edit one episode than to shoot it and write it.”
Larry David
