"The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms."
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"No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work."
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"That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy."
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"This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast."
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"Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]"
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"The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?""
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"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing."
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"Not too many people know who the editor is."
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"There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors."
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"You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell."
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"I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazinethat was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an officeI had to pull out."
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"It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper."
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