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The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece. — Alexander Chee

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. — Keith Rabois

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. — Lydia Davis

is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in. — Lynne Truss

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

It's true: Medium has the best web-based editor I've ever seen. And I've seen them all. — Anil Dash

Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting. — Victoria Janssen

Everybody needs an editor. — Pete Hamill

If my dream comes true,
Is truth then only a dream? — Rob Bignell, Editor

News' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim. — Tom Rachman

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best. — Ira Glass

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. — A. Scott Berg

If the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. — Jacqueline Winspear

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. — Louis Sachar

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job. — Vincent Gallo

Not too many people know who the editor is. — Julius Schwartz

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. — Arthur Christiansen

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. — Donald Davis

Raimon Casellas is the writer (not Raimoun)
Alan Yates the translator
Eva Bosch the editor — Casellas Raimoun Yates Alan

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor. — Steven Price

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. — Vince Flynn

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. — V.S. Naipaul

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read. — Fran Tarkenton

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone. — Toni Morrison

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor. — JoAnn Ross

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world. — John Hall Wheelock

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. — Dan Rather

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. — John Burnside

Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor. — Maureen Johnson

Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead, — William, Executive Editor Messenger

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. — Edna Buchanan

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. — Chad Harbach

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! — Joyce Carol Oates

It's important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft. — S.J. Scott

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good. — Kinky Friedman

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. — D. B. Sweeney

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