272 Quotes About Editors

  • Author Douglass North
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    In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

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  • Author Jo Nesbø
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    You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

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  • Author Lennart Nilsson
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    And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

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  • Author Phillip Noyce
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    But usually you're waiting around for these editors to do stuff and you get really bored. It was better for them to wait for me!

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  • Author V. S. Naipaul
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    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.

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  • Author Austin O'Malley
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    Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

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  • Author David Ogilvy
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    Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

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