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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.
God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.
I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece.
[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.
The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.
I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.
Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.
if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
Alan Rusbridger is, to many, among the most admired newspaper editors of our time.
I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.
The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.