Top Editors Quotes
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Mark Twain
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
I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
Fred Saberhagen
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Walter Jon Williams
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
Lynn Abbey
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Mark Twain 
77% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
Fred Saberhagen
56% of people like this quote
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Walter Jon Williams
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
Lynn Abbey
55% of people like this quote
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Len Wein
54% of people like this quote
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman
54% of people like this quote
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
Robert Scheer
54% of people like this quote
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Bill Joy
54% of people like this quote
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