You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
Everybody needs an editor.
As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
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.
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