Advice Quote by Lionel Shriver

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

— H. L. Mencken

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

“Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will…

— Stephen King

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

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

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

— Russell Lynes

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his…

— Samuel Johnson

“If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to…

— Charles Dickens