A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

- Helena Bonham Carter

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

- Kelly LeBrock

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

- Ken Follett

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

- Julius Schwartz

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

- John McWhorter

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

- Jane Yolen

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

- Jane Lindskold

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

- James Nachtwey

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

- James Dickey

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

- Jason Bateman

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

- Azzedine Alaia

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

- Francoise Sagan

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

- Felix Dennis

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

- Edan Lepucki

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

- Erin McKean

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

- Elliott Erwitt

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

- Edmund White

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

- Christopher Hitchens

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

- Carine Roitfeld

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

- Bill Joy