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Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works
I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight in...
A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.
A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles.