272 Quotes About Editors

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.

Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

What can you do if they don’t take it? You can’t go ask: “Why didn’t you take my writing?” They didn’t take it; that’s it. More importantly, I never sent my stuff to them. I knew they wouldn’t publish. But the first non-Hungry writing I had perhaps given to Golpo-Kobita. Subhash and Basudev also wrote in that magazine later. Then, I was also enmeshed in a lot of things…marriage, home, office.

Writing doesn't improve by not doing it.

Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.

Great poets are great copy editors.

I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.

Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don’t love you or your work.