Ellen Datlow Quotes

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

I have actually had to ask my supervisors not to curse in meetings or in general in the workplace.

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

Don't get involved in the interoffice politics. On 'Suits,' it can be cheeky and fun to see Rachel and Donna being gossipy, but people get caught up in that. I think in life and in the office, it's best to stay out of the drama.

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.

Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.