"A writer is a guy in the hospital wearing one of those gowns that’s open in the back.
An editor is walking behind, making sure that nobody can see his ass. "
--John Bennett, editor at the New Yorker
There are about 40 Bennett aphorisms in a piece on the great New Yorker editor in the Columbia Journalism Review.
If you work with words, it will make you smile.
- "Put the best shit at the end, the second-best shit at the beginning, and all the other shit in between.
- "An editor is like a shrink. If the writer doesn’t think his editor is great, he’s totally fucked up. "
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