Graydon Carter Quotes

I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.

I was so passionate about being in the magazine industry, even when I first started at 'Mirabella.'

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director, and three years later I went back to London to be editor in chief of British 'Vogue.'

There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

There’s nothing wrong with a politician saying ‘I don’t know.’ Especially in a disaster there is nothing wrong with saying ‘I don’t know.’

I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

Running a magazine is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs every so often. Though there's no stated term limit, four or five years should be plenty of time to put your stamp on a publication.

'I don't know' is my favorite position.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

You see, we didn't know.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

I don't even know what it means to fix a matchI, wouldn't know where to start.

The truth is, I don't know how to draw.

I'm clueless when it comes to flowers.

I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition.

Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango!