“ Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. Ryan Lilly
“ 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. Kristen Henderson
“ You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward. Seth Godin
“ An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. T.S. Eliot
“ Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. David Benioff
“ 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… Leonard S. Marcus
“ 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. Eric Schlosser
“ A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing. Justin Alcala
“ Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles? said John.I'm an editor, said Charles. I have to make decisions like that all the time. James A. Owen
“ An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce'… James Lee Schmidt
“ I’m a little bit of a plot junkie. I like stakes in my books. Sometimes storytelling gets a bit of a bad rap. “Plot’s easy” or “there’s a higher art we are all aspiring to.” Yes, first and foremost we… Lee Boudroux
“ Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or se… William Zinsser
“ 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
“ There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling
