Bottom Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom 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

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

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

— Hampton Fancher

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

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

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

“On Editors: "... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think they prefer…

— Jack London

“Good editors are priceless.”

— Buffy Andrews

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere