222 Editor Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England. Neil Marshall

Dog Made First Before Soldiers Feature Editor Am Years Northeast Eight Newcastle England Film

The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. Nick Denton

Conversation People Walls Lost Down Everybody Sight Would Would-Be Writer Idea Reader Editor Blog Lecture Source Subject Contributor Same Same Level Fan Break Expert Original Original Idea Publishing Level Designed

My aspiration was always to be a fashion editor. Nina Garcia

Fashion Always Editor Aspiration

I've always been drawn more to film. But 'Bloodline,' to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story. Norbert Leo Butz

Time Great Me You Cinema Drawn Complicit About Netflix More Almost Feels Like Piece Great Thing Makes Narrative Always Editor How How Much Been Get Want Story Which Much Choose Film Thing Watch

I was spending all my time at the 'Crimson' - like, 70 hours a week - and I didn't go to class for, like, a year. I failed out of school. I had to leave Harvard, really, halfway through my tenure as the 'Crimson' managing editor. It was this incredibly humiliating and shocking experience. Parker Conrad

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I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.' Peter Ackroyd

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. Peter Davison

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I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change. Philip Pullman

Change Book World Every Marketing Ecology Individual Like Deal Editor Doing Person Should Publicity Publishers Designer Damaging

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001. Pico Iyer

Events Islam September Completed Months Promised Follow Deliver Because Quarrel Editor West Six Just Novel Earlier

On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief. R. J. Cutler

You Style Say Magazine Some Vogue Could Had Put Anna Editor Cover Years Chief Celebrities Decided Her Level Earliest

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots. Rajkumar Hirani

Emotions Out Join He Does Editor Just Creates Shots

I am a young adult author, and so are quite a few of my friends. We all write books for the same demographic; many of us are even published by the same publishing house. Two of us, in fact, share the same editor. Rebecca Serle

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It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story. Rebekah Brooks

Impossible Every Know Editor Source Story

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? Ridley Scott

Great Great Film He Editor Storyteller Film Right

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor. Rob Manuel

Good Great You Will Impress Top Launching Find Web Rise Idea Stuff Joys Audience Editor Your

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard

Age Seen Poet Magazine Having Only Writer Never Had Ideas Editor Began Procedure Fifteen Working Less Profession Chosen Publisher

It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed is more important than content. Whoever gets a review out first becomes the authority. Robert Hilburn

World Internet First Important Every Speed Out Minute About More Counts Concerned Content Because Becomes Editor Bloggers Review Than Authority Gets Different Whoever Now Different World

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them. Robert Mankoff

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames. Robert Wise

You People Important Few Think Frames Those Out Tend Footage True Know Because Always Editor How Opposite Coverage Grab Shoot Just Former Much Less Film Actually Start

I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine. Roberto Civita

Magazine Like Know Make Editor How Being

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. Rodman Philbrick

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important. Roger Ross Williams

Relationship Director Important Between Documentaries Editor

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