Acknowledgments Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

— H. L. Mencken

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

— Linda Sue Park

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont

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 are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”

— William Browning Spencer

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire…

— Betsy Lerner

“Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong…

— Himmilicious

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

— Betsy Lerner

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

— John Farrar