Editor Quotes

Editor Quote of the day

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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

What, Rudolph wasn’t available?

You need editors, not brand managers, who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

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I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty.

I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.