A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.