272 Quotes About Editors

Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.

The reading population of Arizona is small, and the expense of publication great. It is not, therefore, with very bright prospects of pecuniary return that we begin our labors. --Edward E. Cross, "The Weekly Arizonian," March 3, 1859

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

One implication is that we, the people who have been known as PR experts—and still go by that title—have now turned into a combination of publishers, reporters, and editors.

But the institutional mind has only one mental operation: It abhors truth.

Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.