City Quote by Elaine Welteroth

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

— Courtney B. Vance

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

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

— Bill Joy

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

— Kinky Friedman

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

— Betsy Lerner

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

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

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

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 believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night…

— Ed Helms

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

— Robert Gottlieb