Assistants Quote by Ed Helms

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy -…

— David Remnick

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory…

— Lincoln Child

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to…

— Patricia MacLachlan

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors…

— Michael Korda

With a good editor you find yourself shaping as you talk and they will ask a couple of questions that open new things. Some…

— Ron Rosenbaum

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

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I…

— Ira Glass

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being…

— Terri Windling

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

— Karen Thompson Walker

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

— Marilyn Hacker