272 Quotes About Editors

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.