Money Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Stephen Ambrose

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

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

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

— David Ogilvy

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

“Good editors are priceless.”

— Buffy Andrews

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

— Betsy Lerner

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over…

— Anita Diament

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get…

— A. Scott Berg