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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

— Bill Joy

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Everybody needs an editor.

— Pete Hamill

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

— Stephen Ambrose

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

— Michael Korda

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

— Charles Bukowski

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

— Matt Drudge

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

— Victor LaValle

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— John Gardner

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

— Rik Mayall

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.

— David Bergen