An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

— Alice Walker

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right…

— James Gunn

“Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.”

— Victoria Janssen

Newspapers have been likened to steamships that move very slowly, in terms of their direction. And when a reporter is sent out on a…

— Tom Rosenstiel

The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first…

— Adam Ross

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

— Jack Germond

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a…

— Kurt Loder

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

— Andrew Neil

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will…

— Stephen King

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any…

— Frank Deford

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to…

— Luc Dardenne

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker