Quotation Progression

Here are some more esteemed thoughts to add to the recent debates underway on this blog:

"An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have somebody to look up to."
— Gene Fowler

"Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them."

— Maxwell E. Perkins

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
— T.S. Eliot
"Anybody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog."

— Irving Swifty Lazar

"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
— Oscar Wilde

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

— Sylvia Plath