Editor Quotes

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad. - Julius Schwartz

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

Wintour is fur-bearing animals' worst enemy because her magazine continues to feature dozens of pags of pro-fur editorials and advertising each year. - Yvonne Taylor

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. - James Dickey

Who's got the Paris Review? ... It's under a new editor. - Dave Eggers

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. - Jerry B. Jenkins

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer. - Joe Simon

Whether it is the [Federal Communications Commission] cracking down on indecent content or the ability of editors to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad -- we should all know a little more. - Clay Calvert

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story should be sacred. - Steve Outing