Top 33 Quotes About Editorials
#1. Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
Arthur Brisbane
#2. There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley
#3. We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.
Dave Barry
#4. Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.
Dave Barry
#5. I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
Richard M. Nixon
#6. A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand, bone-chilling commission should write book reviews, editorials, or health-insurance policies instead.
Pat Conroy
#7. Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.
Herb Ritts
#8. Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Malcolm Forbes
#9. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan
#10. Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
Jesse Jackson
#11. One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Will Rogers
#12. If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
Richard John Neuhaus
#13. Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#14. Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.
Andrew Rosenthal
#15. When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: Don't be a victim, join the movement.
Mia Bloom
#16. I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.
Charles Krauthammer
#17. What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.
Maureen Callahan
#18. I definitely take inspiration from runway trends but also throughout my travels, I see editorials all over in all of the different publications.
Olivia Palermo
#19. I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
Paul Conrad
#20. I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
Ted Cruz
#21. Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times ... as your editorials remind us
A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there?
Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers
Dingley Falls
Michael Malone
#22. I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!
Gigi Hadid
#23. Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
Jane Yolen
#24. I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.
Jacquelyn Jablonski
#25. In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
Katharine Graham
#26. For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
Gloria Steinem
#27. Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.
Rex Murphy
#28. I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness ... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
Charles Krauthammer
#29. Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.
Mike Royko
#30. I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.
Lindsey Wixson
#32. And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.
Maryann Brandon
#33. Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.
Adam Gopnik
