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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. -- Jackie Kennedy
My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor. -- Jason Calacanis
The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal -- H.W. Brands
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled. -- Kin Hubbard
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed -- Elbert Hubbard
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. -- Elbert Hubbard
But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Melissa Biggs Bradley spent a decade as Travel Editor of 'Town & Country,' and later served as the founding editor of 'Town & Country Travel.' She then launched Indagare Souk, an online marketplace of global treasures. -- Amanda Hearst
I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at CondÃ© Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites, -- Suzy Menkes
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
The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no. -- Clifford Stoll
When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure -- Pope Francis
Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough. -- Jami Attenberg
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing. -- Ron Fournier
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. -- J. I. Packer
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times. -- Bill Russell
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification. -- Robert Gottlieb
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor. -- Bill Joy
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
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. -- Kurt Loder
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. -- Tim Cahill
About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me. -- Nate Berkus
I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman. -- Boman Irani
If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! -- Beyonce Knowles
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise. -- Will Allison
My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it. -- Jane Green
My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age. -- Anna Wintour
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. -- Timothy Ferriss
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' -- James Wolcott
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. -- Galen Rowell
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. -- Julian Assange
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. -- Alice Sebold
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely. -- Michael Arndt
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. -- H. G. Bissinger
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon. -- Julia Glass
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
Procrustes was an editor. -- Robin Skelton
Everyone needs an editor. -- Timothy Foote
Movies are an editor's medium. -- Stephen Root
Never throw up on an editor. -- Ellen Datlow
A good novel editor is invisible. -- Terri Windling
As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. -- Jack Dorsey
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! -- Joyce Carol Oates
A very good editor is almost a collaborator. -- Ken Follett
I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor. -- Wolf Blitzer
Not too many people know who the editor is. -- Julius Schwartz
A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses. -- S. Kelley Harrell
I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor. -- David Zinczenko
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. -- Jean de La Fontaine
An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. -- William Thomas Stead
Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies. -- Anthony Hopkins
I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. -- Anthony Edwards
As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course. -- Robert Gottlieb
The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice. -- Keith Rabois
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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. -- Khaled Hosseini
An editor's job is to take something great and make it good. -- Kinky Friedman
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. -- Donald Davis
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. -- David Benioff
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator. -- Wally Wood
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. -- Sam Rockwell
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor. -- Steven Price
The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. -- Roger Ross Williams
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. -- Steve Martin
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. -- Robert Gottlieb
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number. -- William Raspberry
We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. -- Joel Spolsky
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too. -- Jostein Gaarder
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. -- Robert Gottlieb
I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor. -- Diana Vreeland
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. -- Chris DiBona
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. -- Josephus Daniels
The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece. -- Alexander Chee
[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer. -- Nat Hentoff
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. -- Arthur Christiansen
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. -- Ryan Lilly
Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell, -- William Bastone
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. -- Ashwin Sanghi
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. -- Woody Herman
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' -- Ruth Glick
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. -- Irwin Shaw
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. -- Lynne Truss
Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good. -- Rands
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. -- Bill Joy
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. -- Adlai Stevenson I
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. -- Jasper Fforde
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers. -- Jenna Bush
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. -- Jeffery Deaver
Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace. -- Clara Jeffery
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff -- Adlai E. Stevenson
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. -- Ambrose Bierce
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. -- Nora Roberts
I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. -- Vince Flynn
if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. -- Jacqueline Winspear
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. -- Rand Paul
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.] -- Jean de La Fontaine
The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things. -- Keith Rabois
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call." -- Bill Walsh
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call -- Bill Walsh
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. -- Ru Freeman
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. -- Bill Walsh
What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler -- Arthur Koestler
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to. -- Gene Fowler
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. -- Jenna Bush
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. -- Mary Norris
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better. -- Courtney B. Vance
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation. -- Rebekah Brooks
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. -- Tucker Max
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. -- Frederick Busch
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms. -- Judith Guest
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? -- Thomas Carlyle
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. -- Bill Keller
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. -- Jane Haddam
I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat. -- Blake Lively
Itâ??s true: Medium has the best web-based editor Iâ??ve ever seen. And Iâ??ve seen them all. -- Anil Dash

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