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“I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work while she was on her honeymoon]”
Dorothy Parker quotes (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)
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“An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)

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“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.”
Mark Helprin quotes (American Novelist, b.1947)
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“There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm”
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“[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.”
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“How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”
dmg Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''”
James Thurber quotes (American Writer, 1894-1961)

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“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
Adlai E. Stevenson quotes (American Politician. Governor of Illinois (1949-53) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-65). 1900-1965)
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