Copy Editing Quotes

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

Everybody needs an editor.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be.

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.

Working at 'Harper's' was an awakening experience for me. I genuinely enjoyed the process of putting together a fashion magazine.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.

The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!

First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.

All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.

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.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.