Pastoral Resources

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we."

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

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.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.