(144 quotes found)
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."”
Mark Twain
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
T.S. Eliot
“Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.”
Thomas Griffith
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w”
Ernest Hemingway
“[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.”
David Leavitt
“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
Richard Branson
“This could be the best blues festival of the year!!!”
Art Tipaldi
“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.”
John Hall Wheelock
“Editors exist [because] most people don't have time to rummage through vast piles of hay for the specific needles they're looking for; we want professional needle-finders.”
Jonah Goldberg
