Summer Ross

“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”
― Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees

“Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts”
― Pam Houston, Sight Hound

“A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)
A good novel editor is invisible.”
― Terri Windling