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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.

Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

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.

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

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

Authors can get an attitude of us-against-them when it comes to publishers, but learning how authors and editors can work together taught me to look at my work in a different way and to make that work as solid as possible before it ever goes to the publisher.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.