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Quotes about editing and editors
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. (Abbey Lynn)
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. (Abbey Lynn)
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. (Abbey Lynn)
When in doubt, delete it. (Abbey Lynn)
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir. (Abbey Lynn)
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. (Abbey Lynn)
I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. (Abbey Lynn)
In art economy is always beauty. (Abbey Lynn)
Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. (Abbey Lynn)
If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes. (Abbey Lynn)
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. (Abbey Lynn)
Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly. (Abbey Lynn)
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. (Abbey Lynn)
There is but one art, to omit. (Abbey Lynn)
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage? (Abbey Lynn)
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? (Abbey Lynn)
Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. (Abbey Lynn)
A good editor-and I don't claim to be one-can deduce the ideal elements of a writer's style and story and administer the necessary guidance to trick the writer into revealing it. (Abbey Lynn)
Editorial processes are subjective, based on what's available at a given moment in time, and ultimately unfair. (Abbey Lynn)
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. (Abbey Lynn)
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