272 Quotes About Editors

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

I suppose 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.