In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
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.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.