editor

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is often a failed writer, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot)

is a man who separates the wheat from the chaff, and then prints the chaff.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

is related to an author like a knife is related to a throat.

The relationship of editor to author is knife to throat.

is a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

The conscience of an editor is purely decorative.

is a cog in the literary machinery responsible for transforming slavish, purple prose into completely unreadable dreck.

is a fellow with a little desk and a big waste basket.