Editors Quote by George Bernard Shaw

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

— John Prine

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

— H. L. Mencken

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

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

— Terri Windling

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

— Mark Twain

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

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

— John Farrar

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Betsy Lerner