Magazines Quotes

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's simple,' Kat told them. 'You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make them feel grotty for being the way they are. You're working with the gap between reality and perception. That's why you have to hit them with something new, something they've never seen before, something they aren't. Nothing sells like anxiety.

~ Margaret Atwood

The 'incredible frog hotel'—really a local bed and breakfast—...the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.

~ Elizabeth Kolbert

Pretty average headlines for a worldwide catastrophe,” Jane remarked as she read from Hollywood's Highest. “Some man in Africa claimed to have found the cure for AIDS, yet another politician said something about the president and now formally regrets it, and a pop star OD'd while an actress lost fifteen pounds overnight, and here's how you can, too!” She continued reading. “Oh, wow. The 'Celebrititties' section says she was in a car accident and her arms had to be amputated. Damn.

~ Bryant A. Loney

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

~ Terry Mcdonell

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~ Discovered Pages

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

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited? Will we add to our tradition or will we subtract from it? Will we enrich it or will we deplete it?

~ Leon Wieseltier