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“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.”

Want Stuff Doors Reader Taste Authority Awful Editors Publishers Obsolete

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.”

Trying Happens Creative Reader Careful Thoughtful Helpful Editors Midwife

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.”

Produce Reader Aim Editors Scholarly

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.”

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Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.”

Knows Real Ends Reader Flames Editors Carrier

Author:Alan Rusbridger

“All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.”

Knows Want Should Reader Strive Editors Want U

Author:William Zinsser

“To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Reader Editors Good Writers

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.”

Writing Reading Reader Editors

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.”

“The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.”

Firsts Believe Duty Reader Sentiments Editors Gauges

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Source: THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise): A Political Economy Book

“It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.”

Thinking Social Understanding Reader Bunch Editors Wire Moron Brits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.”

May Book Ends Able Advice Reader Novelists Editors

Author:Jon Weisman

“Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)”

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Author:Kate Christensen

“As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French in 1984. It was only years later, in Romania, that I was able to publish the book as I wrote it.”

Years Book Whole Able Desire Reader Pages Editors Publish Romania

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.”

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Author:Toni Jerrman

“I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which is why every time somebody cares enough to read a novel of mine, or respond to it - a reader, a reviewer, even my own editor - I'm a little bit amazed, and so hugely grateful.”

Writing Littles Ideas Enough Care Bits My Own Novel Written Mines Reader Little Bit Grateful Editors Amazed Publish Reviewers

Author:Lauren Grodstein

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