Top Editor Quotes

  • A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree…they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy. – Bobbi Romans

    A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree…they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.– Bobbi Romans

  • An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. – TS Eliot

    An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.– TS Eliot

  • A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well. – BA Gabrielle

    A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.– BA Gabrielle

  • A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing. – Justin Alcala

    A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.– Justin Alcala

  • I have an idea for a new book. It’s a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it? – Annie Barrows

    I have an idea for a new book. It’s a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?– Annie Barrows

  • If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication. – Sunday Adelaja

    If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.– Sunday Adelaja

  • Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. – Ryan Lilly

    Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.– Ryan Lilly

  • In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. – Josh Malerman

    In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.– Josh Malerman

  • There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (-¦)A good novel editor is invisible. – Terri Windling

    There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (-¦)A good novel editor is invisible.– Terri Windling

  • The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal – HW Brands

    The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal– HW Brands