Editors Quote by James Nachtwey

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well.…

— Tim Cahill

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware…

— Ed Helms

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

— William H. Gass

I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a…

— Grant Morrison

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When…

— Jami Attenberg

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

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

Never throw up on an editor.

— Ellen Datlow

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

— Thorstein Veblen