--- title: "14 Editors Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "14 Editors quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Editors sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/821/mark-twain-22_austria_in-austria-an-editor-who-can-write-well_2558577.png" --- > [In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/in-austria-an-editor-who-can-write-well-is-valuable-but-he-is-not/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/821/mark-twain-22_austria_in-austria-an-editor-who-can-write-well_2558577.png) > [No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/no-man-has-an-appreciation-so-various-that-his-judgment-is-good-upon/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/276/mark-twain-22_appreciation_no-man-has-an-appreciation-so-various-th_709886.png) > [The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-critic-s-symbol-should-be-the-tumble-bug-he-deposits-his-egg-in/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/919/mark-twain-22_bugs_the-critic-s-symbol-should-be-the-tumble_1473649.png) > [I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-hate-editors-for-they-make-me-abandon-a-lot-of-perfectly-good/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/mark-twain-22_abandon_i-hate-editors-for-they-make-me-abandon_3212589.png) > [The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-only-people-who-should-use-the-possessive-we-are-kings-newspaper/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/mark-twain-22_editors_the-only-people-who-should-use-the-posse_1154905.png) > [I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-am-not-the-editor-of-a-newspaper-and-shall-always-try-to-do-right/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/mark-twain-22_be-good_i-am-not-the-editor-of-a-newspaper-and-s_2448249.png) > [The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-public-is-the-only-critic-whose-judgment-is-worth-anything-at-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/mark-twain-22_critic_the-public-is-the-only-critic-whose-judg_2437537.png) > [Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/only-kings-presidents-editors-and-people-with-tapeworms-have-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/421/mark-twain-22_editorial_only-kings-presidents-editors-and-people_40949.png) > [That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/that-is-a-society-editor-sitting-there-elegantly-dressed-with-his/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/mark-twain-22_bribe_that-is-a-society-editor-sitting-there-e_638221.jpg) > [How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/how-often-we-recall-with-regret-that-napoleon-once-shot-at-a-magazine/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/mark-twain-22_charity_how-often-we-recall-with-regret-that-nap_1123065.jpg) > [This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/this-editor-is-a-critic-he-has-pulled-out-his-carving-knife-and-his/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/mark-twain-22_book_this-editor-is-a-critic-he-has-pulled-ou_1368372.png) > [Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/another-editor-that-thing-behind-his-ear-is-his-pencil-whenever-he/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/mark-twain-22_behinds_another-editor-that-thing-behind-his-ear_2274053.png) > [That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/that-is-an-editor-he-is-trying-to-think-of-a-word-he-props-his-feet/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/mark-twain-22_care_that-is-an-editor-he-is-trying-to-think_1121581.png) > [The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-editor-of-a-newspaper-cannot-be-independent-but-must-work-with/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/mark-twain-22_all-kinds_the-editor-of-a-newspaper-cannot-be-inde_2621145.png) ## Other authors on Editors ## More by Mark Twain > [Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/editors/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "14 Editors Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, 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