To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about. — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it. — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to… — Jay Cassidy Copy Share Image
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
When I was a book editor, I got used to being told that my tastes were dark or edgy. These are not… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further… — William Banting Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening… — Harlan Cleveland Copy Share Image
Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet."… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
![“I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/042/kevin-sessums-9486_editors_i-just-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-publi_606050.jpg)
![“Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't…” quote by Deborah Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/851/deborah-smith-13837_artistic_whenever-i-visit-korea-she-kang-buys-me_1261446.jpg)
