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It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".
— Bernard Haisch
is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in.
— Lynne Truss
It is not the editor I have to please, it is the reader. It is the reader who signs my pay check.
— Cap'n Fatty Goodlander
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[Lockyer] ... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.] — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.
— Victoria Janssen
A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Everybody needs an editor.
— Pete Hamill
Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
If my dream comes true, Is truth then only a dream? — Rob Bignell, Editor
is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
— J.D. Salinger
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
— Walter Cronkite
News' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.
— Tom Rachman
You have to move on. Enjoy your life.
— Lea Agustina Citra
We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
— Asif Kapadia
A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
— Ken Follett
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
— Louis Sachar
Everything about being a copy editor is top secret - by default, really - because no one else cares.
— Rainbow Rowell
Never throw up on an editor.
— Ellen Datlow
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
— Scott Pelley
I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
— Neil Marshall
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
— Walter Annenberg
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
— Jack Germond
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
— Michael Crichton
As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
— Warren Bennis
A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
— Annalee Newitz
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.
— Eddie Mair
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...
— Thorstein Veblen
And my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000.
— Dan Simmons
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.
— Chuck Klosterman
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.
— Gregory Rabassa
I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.
— Michael Gruber
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.
— Julie E. Czerneda
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
— Jane Haddam
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
— Jeffery Deaver
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
— Julia London
The editor is always right.
— Stephen King
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
— Robert Burchfield
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
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
— Jack Kirby
I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.
— Rebekah Brooks
Your world is your story with tragedies and triumphs; never forget that you are the editor too.
— Debasish Mridha
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
— Bill Keller
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
— Edna Buchanan
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.
— V.S. Naipaul
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Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
— Arthur Christiansen
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
— John Burnside
I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.
— Vincent Gallo
Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor.
— Maureen Johnson
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
— Donald Davis
I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.
— Topher Grace
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
— Mark Twain
An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.
— Kinky Friedman
It's important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.
— S.J. Scott
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
— Joyce Carol Oates
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
— Chad Harbach
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
An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.
— Toni Morrison
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
— Bill Walsh
Just recieved my manuscript from the editor and he didn't change a word. The word he didn't change was the.
— Roy A. Higgins
Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead,
— William, Executive Editor Messenger
'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
— Howard Stern
I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.
— Stockard Channing
I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.
— Mark Frauenfelder
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
— Robert Gottlieb
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
— Lilly Singh
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
— Kenneth Cranham
Everyone Doesn't Deserve A Front Seat In Your Life, Former "Editor In Chief, Susan Taylor Essence Magazine
— Beverly Montgomery
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
— Dave Eggers
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
— Fran Tarkenton
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
— Norman Mailer
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.
— Sam Rockwell
