Afghanistan Quote by David Remnick

There are days when you might enjoy being an editor a little less, due to one crisis or another. It is absolutely vital, to…

— David Remnick

I know I'm a better editor than I was when I began, twenty years ago. I'm less scared of the text, I'm less scared…

— Hanya Yanagihara

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

— Courtney B. Vance

The life of an editor may seem all glam all the time, but there's nothing like schlepping through the city during a torrential downpour…

— Elaine Welteroth

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became…

— Edmund White

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

— Isabel Allende

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity,…

— Harlan Coben

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

— David Grann

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in…

— Kari Skogland

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the…

— John Hall Wheelock

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

— Elliott Erwitt

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

— Thomas Bidegain