I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me..

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the ro….

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the….

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons..

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor..

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it..

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails..

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a….

I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors as backstops. Their job is….

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we un….

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame ….

It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in a medium as much scrutinized by ….

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out..

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method..

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads..

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back t….

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder ….

Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the h….

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and ….

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our par….

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some new….