Always Quote by A. Scott Berg

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

— Dan Poynter

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

— Maxwell Perkins

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make…

— Gail Simone

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

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

— Terri Windling

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom line editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather