I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.
It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book.
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
Everybody needs an editor.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.
Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.
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. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.
I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'
You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.
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.
My aspiration was always to be a fashion editor.
Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.
Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
