“[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.”
David Leavitt
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."”
Mark Twain
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
T.S. Eliot
“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
“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
Richard Branson
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w”
Ernest Hemingway
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
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