272 Quotes About Editors

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

The editors have told Flemming Rose to take a holiday because no one can understand the kind of pressure he has been under.

The editors thought if you didn't publish it, much of this would go away.

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.