Editors Quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

— Lord Acton

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be…

— Lu Xun

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable…

— Karl Rahner

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

— Learned Hand

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics…

— Peter Kreeft

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

— Andre Suares

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

— H. L. Mencken

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

— John Shelby Spong

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

— Bill Joy