Editor Quotes

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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