Editorial Decision Quotes

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

One of the seminal moments I remember as a young punk is, when Roy Thomas was doing an editorial read-through of a book before it went to press, and being so gob-smacked by it, he just canceled it right there.

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go.

The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

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.

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.