Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Adlai Stevenson II
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. A. Scott Berg
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. Lynn Abbey
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. Stephen Ambrose