Quotes: Editors

Successful model? That’s a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all “bottom line” editors; everything depends on the money.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception – at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can’t direct, they can’t write, they can’t act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.