Happy Quote by Jenny Zhang

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

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an…

— John Hyams

I wanted to be my own editor, and by 'editor,' I mean unedited-or.

— Leandra Medine

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

— Courtney B. Vance

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

— David Grann

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

— Jack Germond

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

— Christopher Hitchens

And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder…

— Nicholas Stoller

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

— Frank McCourt

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

— Bill Keller

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of…

— Walter Jon Williams