272 Quotes About Editors

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

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.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe...

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.