84 Quotes About Editor

You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

Opinions, opinions, opinions abound - I do believe that this, here, opinion is sound.

A magazine—a relevant one—should be a sound, not an echo.

The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.

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An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

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