Editor Quotes

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.

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.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

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.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series.

I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Peace without justice is tyranny

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans;

the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers.

Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

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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.

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand.

" I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Science today is locked into paradigms.

Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.

Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work.

Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.