#editor

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. ↗

— Theodore White

#correct #editors #kinds #say #those

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#before #editorial #even #i #i think

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter'. He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#because #called #desk #editor #father

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) ↗

— Jack McClelland

#editor #humor #margaret-atwood #publishing #writing

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. ↗

— Douglass North

#case #companion #continues #critic #editor

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#before #better #bit #body #editors

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ardent #believer #claims #contrary #critics

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells. ↗

— Bruce Oldfield

#bruce #charlotte #dresses #editorial #famous

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#another #editor #get #give #go

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting. ↗

— Jay Roach

#becomes #both #collecting #combination #decisions