Quotes About Newspaper Editors

#1. While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

Elayne Boosler

#2. We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#3. I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Kate Chopin

#4. I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.

Peter Sis

#5. Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

Harold Holzer

#6. People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.

Jennifer Lee

#7. The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

Mark Twain

#8. Years working at a newspaper. You learn to write fast and reasonably good and in a manner which does not require substantial editing. Or your editors and copyeditors stab you to death and hang your corpse in the newsroom as a warning to the other staff writers.

John Scalzi

#9. Recession, terrorism, debts, political turmoil, disease, famine, mortality... screw it, I'm putting googly eyes on things.

Charles R.L. Guthrie

#10. I think more people should shoot newspaper editors ... it might improve the press

Ken Follett

#11. I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

Steve Coogan

#12. Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

Hedy Lamarr

#13. In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.

Pete Hamill

#14. If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#15. I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#16. The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

Laila Lalami

#17. I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Mark Twain

#18. Hopefully never extinguished
The beauty that comes from your soul

Debby Feo

#19. Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Arthur Christiansen

#20. I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#21. The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

Evan Osnos

#22. When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

Michael D. Higgins

#23. Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#24. The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#25. Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

Kevin Rose