editors
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.