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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
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.
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
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.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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.
When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.