Editors Quotes

Various editors, senior editors at major houses who wanted the book said that they didn't quite know what genre it was.

Vanna Bonta

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Stephen Ambrose

Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we".

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

Terri Windling

All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.

William Whitworth

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

T. S. Eliot

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Walter Jon Williams

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.

Mike Rider

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Walter Jon Williams

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

Mark Twain

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

Thomas Griffith

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

T.S. Eliot

We all know that the first bankers of the world — Rothschilds — are Jews; we know they control not only the money market, but also the political destiny of the European world... The Press of Europe is mostly controlled by Jews; the leading editors are Jews.

Simon Wolf
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