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

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

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

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Theodore White

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
Matt Drudge

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

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
Thom Gunn

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
Jonathan Carroll

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
Joe Simon

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
James Dickey

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
Julius Schwartz

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
Kelly LeBrock