Authority Quote by Walter Jon Williams

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

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

— Betsy Lerner

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

— Anonymous

Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read.…

— William Zinsser

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the…

— Philip Pullman

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading,…

— Tucker Max

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

— David Robinson

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think…

— A. S. Byatt