Quotes / Da Editor

"Let me tell you how it is. You gather the evidence and write stories. That's what you do. That's your job. I'm an editor. That means I do everything else. I get you paid. I move your work to all the places it needs to be. I used to pay your rent. I deal with the complaints and the edicts from above and keep you mollified and all the other bullshit. I get the work out of you and I wipe your ass and keep your nose clean. You write the stories and I do every other damn thing there is to do. And you know why? It's because you only know how to write, and I've had to learn to do everything else."

—Mitchel "Where's My Fucking Column" Royce, Two-Fisted Editor, Transmetropolitan

"Well I'm not as afraid of Godzilla, as I am of the editor. He's meaner."

—Nakamura, Mothra vs. Godzilla

I had achieved the age of majority, and I ascended to the sub-basement for my ritual beating. [...] The beating was an inverted pyramid of torment—thorough, systematic, precise, bitter, and exactly long enough to do maximum damage without allowing me to slip into unconsciousness. It was, in short, exactly what one would expect from a man trained primarily as a newspaper editor.

—From the biography of The Onion's founder T. Herman Zweibel

There’s an archetypal editor, a J Jonah Jameson, who employs fury and constant abuse to run a tight ship. Craig Stormon runs that ship ashore. None are safe from his fury, especially himself, and it is all in the service of failure. It’s like how Mussolini made the trains run on time, only all the trains are on the same track and pointed at each other.

—Website/1900HotDog on The Life Brigade