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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Leon Harris - The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964) -
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
Aint It Cool News interview -
If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!
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In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981) -
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
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The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.
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The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
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