The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ""bottom line"" editors; everything depends on the money.
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Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
quote by David Ogilvy
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
quote by Carl Sandburg
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When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
quote by Jonathan Carroll
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors (16 April 1963)
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
quote by Ben Bradlee
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
quote by Kelly LeBrock
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
quote by Walter Jon Williams
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
quote by Daniel Okrent
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
quote by Theodore White
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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
quote by Terri Windling
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ""we.""
quote by Mark Twain
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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
quote by James Dickey
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
quote by Randall Jarrell
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The end of spring
The end of spring--
the poet is brooding
about editors.
Translated by Robert Hass
poem by Yosa Buson
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
quote by Edmund White
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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
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