Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan’s letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story. He stood reading for almost five minutes before noticing he was...

I have an idea for a new book. It’s a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You’re a fixer; you make things better.

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn’t embarrass them and also doesn’t give the child one slight inkling of beauty...

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.”~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director’s assistant, an editor.

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.