272 Quotes About Editors

Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.

Redaktori mīl klusus, pazemīgus apmeklētājus, kas nebāžas virsū, bet pagaida, kamēr viņus ievēro, un tad izmeklētos vārdos lūdz cienījamā laikraksta neaizstājamo atbalstu.

Es curioso: de un tiempo a esta parte se pretende que los escritores se ocupen y se pronuncien sobre cuestiones pertenecientes al mundo editorial. Mientras tanto, los editores funcionan como críticos –en el peor sentido del oficio– y los críticos como escritores –en el peor sentido del oficio, también–. Todo está un poco confundido, desfasado.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.