Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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.