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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon. — Anna Wintour

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on". — Bernard Haisch

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

Editors, huh? By golly ... you're right. They're everywhere. What is this place? Heaven? — Rainbow Rowell

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. — Meg Rosoff

Remember,the most important relationship you can ever have is with yourself"-Dr.Phil — The Editors Of O, The Oprah Magazine

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner

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

The unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives. — Helen McCloy

[Lockyer] ... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.
[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.] — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. — Israel Zangwill

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over. — Felix Dennis

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do. — Kevin Rose

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The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors. — Neil Postman

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in — Jonah Lehrer

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down. — P. J. O'Rourke

Editors are licensed to be curious. — William Zinsser

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. — Voltaire

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. — Walter Cronkite

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author. — Frederic G. Kenyon

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief. — Jack Dorsey

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

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. — Ken Follett

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors. — Kurt Vonnegut

Never throw up on an editor. — Ellen Datlow

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. — George Herbert

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house. — Iman

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. — Bill Keller

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril. — Robin Hobb

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. — Jack Kirby

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. — Matt Drudge

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. — George Bernard Shaw

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words. — Mark Twain

Girls, we're fiction editors
we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget. — Stephanie Bond

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman

Procrustes was an editor. — Robin Skelton

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy. — Brian K. Vaughan

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book. — Christopher Darden

The Difference between Writers and Editors.
Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end. — Roy A. Higgins

ignorant editors and a smothering patron - produced the sort of dependence that affects, — Zora Neale Hurston

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end. — Steve Coogan

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms. — Judith Guest

Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be. — E. Nesbit

I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class. — Piers Anthony

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary. — Fanny Fern

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them. — Ellen J. Barrier

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing. — David Robinson

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best. — Rik Mayall

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. — Charlotte Cotton

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. — David Brock

When in doubt, delete it. — Phil Crosby

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

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. — Daniel Okrent

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

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

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 know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience. — Victor LaValle

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

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction. — Emma Donoghue

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer. — John McWhorter

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

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern

Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can. — Peter Landesman

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. — Michael D. Higgins

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

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

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose ... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. — David Ogilvy

the messages are nothing like those Thompson reported — The Editors Of FATE

I think more people should shoot newspaper editors ... it might improve the press — Ken Follett

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

There is but one art, to omit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. — Robert Gottlieb

Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick. — Eddie Mair

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ... — Thorstein Veblen

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors. — H.L. Mencken

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years. — Erin McKean

Editors are the literary surgeons of the world. — Suzanne Steele

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor. — Stockard Channing

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands. — Kelly LeBrock

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic
I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method. — Kelly Link

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. — Chris DiBona

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White

I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them. — Jeffrey Zeldman

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. — Thomas Carlyle

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. — Don Feder

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. — Sam Rockwell

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was. — Elton Trueblood

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