Books Quote by Alan Rusbridger

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

— Betsy Lerner

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

— Maxwell Perkins

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of…

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Scott Pelley

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

— Bill Joy

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through…

— Arthur Plotnik

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

— Stephen Ambrose

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the…

— John Gardner

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

— Erica Jong

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater…

— Pat Oliphant

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

— H. L. Mencken