There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
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.
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.