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“While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.”
― Tiffany Madison

“Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?â€�. Monet would be ripping his hair out.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.”
― John Green

“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“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.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“Great poets are great copy editors.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Letters

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”
― William Collins

“But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”
― Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees

“Writing doesn't improve by not doing it.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart their correctness upon you at the same time.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“I suppose this is a trivial matter but I do want to object to the maddening fuss-fidget punctuation which one of your editors is attempting to impose on my story. I said it before but I'll say it again, that unless necessary for clarity of meaning I would prefer a minimum of goddamn commas, hyphens, apostrophes, quotation marks and fucking (most obscene of all punctuation marks) semi-colons. I've had to waste hours erasing that storm of flyshit on the typescript. [Regarding "The Monkey Wrench Gang"]”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don’t love you or your work.”
― Toni Morrison

“But after the war, when editors like Martin Durk came to prominence by trumpeting the timely death of the novel, Parish opted for a reflective silence. He stopped taking on projects and watched with quiet reserve as his authors died off one by one--at peace with the notion that he would join them soon enough in that circle of Elysium reserved for plot and substance and the judicious use of the semicolon.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.”
― Terry McDonell, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”
― John Campbell

“It is free speech, just edited into defeat.”
― Brian Spellman

“Everything we wrote was submitted to the editors above us, grizzled Korean War pilots with buzz cuts and an encyclopedic knowledge, who would routinely bounce our copy back and demand “fixesâ€� (“More color,â€� “Doesn’t track,â€� or simply “Huh?â€� written in the margin).”
― Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

“A book that is made up of only great sentences is not necessarily a great book.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.”
― Dave Barry, humorist

“One implication is that we, the people who have been known as PR experts—and still go by that title—have now turned into a combination of publishers, reporters, and editors.”
― Maxim Behar, The Global PR Revolution: How Thought Leaders Succeed in the Transformed World of PR

“We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in”
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works

“Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.”
― Terry McDonell, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers

“What can you do if they don’t take it? You can’t go ask: “Why didn’t you take my writing?â€� 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.”
― Subimal Basak, Subimal Basak Sankalan

“But the institutional mind has only one mental operation: It abhors truth.”
― E.L. Doctorow, The Waterworks

“If there were an unusual number of 'typos' (typographical errors) in their work--well, the lurking fear of a Winchester slug in the back might account for many mistakes.”
― Jo Ann Schmitt, Fighting Editors

“The reading population of Arizona is small, and the expense of publication great. It is not, therefore, with very bright prospects of pecuniary return that we begin our labors. --Edward E. Cross, "The Weekly Arizonian," March 3, 1859”
― Jo Ann Schmitt, Fighting Editors

“If editors could write, they would be writers.”
― Neel Burton

“I think the Coens are great film editors. So great! It’s funny to me because they get hired to doctor scripts all the time, but no one ever hires them to edit.”
― Adam Nayman, The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together