Editorial Quotes

“Always support younger writers, and do all you can to nourish that spirit of creativity, and original risk. The unique manner of literary innovation that younger writers may engage in, ultimately is priceless. Writers, poets and authors are the spokespersons for ours and the next generations. Support them, mentor them, protect them from the viciousness of popular opinion, which is generally nothing more than censorship wearing the cloak of righteous indignation.”
― Theresa Griffin Kennedy

“Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.”
― Grant McLachlan

“[April Michelle Davis's motto on freelancing in the publishing industry:] Like it, love it, live it. Like your genres, love what you do, live your profession.”
― April Michelle Davis, A Guide for the Freelance Indexer

“Con las palabras todo cuidado es poco, mudan de opinión como las personas”.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said.”
― Maureen Callahan

“Imagine you are a reader perusing reviews of a brand new title to decide if that book is right for you. All the reviews are positive, glowing reports, and you purchase the book feeling confident it’s a winner based on the high ratings it’s sporting. Then after reading it, your excitement and warm fuzzy feelings over the title (and those reviews) have vanished. We must not have read the same book, you begin to wonder. So you go back and look at the reviews again. Now there are several low reviews posted— ARCs that were previously held back. And low and behold, the less than stellar reviews point to the same issues you had. Don’t you feel duped? You should because under this scenario the review system didn't give you an ample sampling of varied opinions.”
― Book –Bosomed in Mythbusting the Book Review System

“Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, or materialist ego of the author.”
― Grant McLachlan

“Invertir por el escritor novel, el desconocido, o aquel que frecuente géneros normalmente no tan agraciados con la masividad supone sus propios riesgos también, pero es la única clase de apuesta que puede sacar a la luz el tan esperado long-seller, el libro que de aquí a 50 o 100 años seguirá vendiendo.”
― Byron Rizzo

“Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,” because of his habit of calling everybody a “cunt.”
― Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

“La inalterable verdad, y la escrupulosa é imparcial sinceridad en la historia son qualidades tan esenciales, que faltando qualquiera de ellas se confunde con estas composiciones, fruto de una imaginacion fecunda, llamadas novelas, que solo sirven para llenar de nulidades la juventud, ó para mutil ó acaso perjudicial recreo del bello sexô”
― Editorial