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Editors
I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most
writers.
T. S. Eliot
(1888-1965)
An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone
to look up to.
Gene Fowler
Editing is the same as quarelling with writers same thing
exactly.
Harold Ross
Editor, 'New Yorker'
1950
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper whose business it
is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and see that the chaff
is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
"Roycroft Dictionary'
1914
He has descended so low as to become the editor of a newspaper.
Unknown advocate
Describing the accused's bad character at the
trial of William Dodd, a preacher, for forgery.