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...

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

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...

Girls, we’re fiction editors–we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he’ll never forget.

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

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.

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

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...

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree…they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock.”—...

Great poets are great copy editors.