Top Editors Quotes

  • Good editors are priceless. – Buffy Andrews

    Good editors are priceless.– Buffy Andrews

  • Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything. – Terry McDonell

    Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.– Terry McDonell

  • Editors are licensed to be curious. – William Zinsser

    Editors are licensed to be curious.– William Zinsser

  • Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • ..here’s the editor’s prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. – Rob Bignell

    ..here’s the editor’s prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.– Rob Bignell

  • 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

  • Great poets are great copy editors. – Dejan Stojanovic

    Great poets are great copy editors.– Dejan Stojanovic

  • Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

    Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

  • Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. – Gene Fowler

    Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.– Gene Fowler

  • But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world. – Betsy Lerner

    But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.– Betsy Lerner