I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

- Anthony Edwards

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

- Jane Smiley

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

- Julian Assange

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

- Irwin Shaw

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

- Hanya Yanagihara

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

- David Horsey

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

- Courtney B. Vance

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

- Bill Joy

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

- Bill Joy

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

- Bill Joy

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.

- Asif Kapadia

On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.

- Asif Kapadia

Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

- Alexander Chee

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

- Ashwin Sanghi

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

- Anthony Hopkins

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

- Andre Leon Talley

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

- Alvin Toffler

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

- Alice Walker