“There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.”
“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.”
“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”
“All of us who write need a good editor. - Sharon Langevin Crawford”
“Glad to know about all of you who care about books, including or especially poetry. I'm a much published writer/editor of 12 books (medical nonfiction, literary novels, mysteries) and much short work, inc. prize-winning pieces.”
“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.”