I’d be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. – Hanya Yanagihara
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. – Alvin Toffler
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong. – Charles Bukowski
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Even when I became the editor of ‘Vogue’ – America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store. – Mary McFadden
I co-founded ‘bOING bOING’ magazine and the ‘Boing Boing Blog’ and was an editor at ‘Wired’ from 1993-1998. – Mark Frauenfelder
I’ve earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways – as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. – Chad Harbach
My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the ’60s and ’70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers. – David Lagercrantz
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don’t write in a vacuum, and we don’t publish in a vacuum. – David Bergen
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset. – Julia London
I’ve been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I’ve been an editor on magazines. – Jane Haddam
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, ‘It’s been Normanized.’ – Ruth Glick
The digital native doesn’t send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. – Rupert Murdoch
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. – Rand Paul
I’m impressed with how ‘Newsweek’s’ outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham. – Tina Brown
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor – not a commentator or analyst. – Walter Cronkite