Editors Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.”

— Nora Roberts

“There was an old joke about being left on a deserted island with an editor. You are starving. All you have left is a…

— Harlan Coben

“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.”

— Bobbi Romans

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with…

— Mark Twain

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Taste while you’re cooking, not right before you are about to serve it when it’s too late to change shit.”

— Thug Kitchen

“I open it so he has no choice. At the crack of the top and the sound of the fizz he winces like one…

— Peter Heller

“Bad taste never dies. It just keeps evolving.”

— Laura Lippman

“It's ingredients and a recipe. Anyone could do it." "But you chose to do it.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“Focuses on flavor, because life is too short to eat tasteless food!”

— Travis Stork

“I always forget that, in the popular imagination, the copy editor is a bit of a witch, and it surprises me when someone is…

— Mary Norris

“Self-editing a novel is like trying to put pants on a cat: yes, it's painful and time consuming, but in the end, satisfying.”

— Robert Jack