Alice Sebold on being an editor

Writing in Publishers Weekly:

This intimacy – the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author – is unique in my experience. At worst, if a writer disagrees, a comment from an editor can make him stand even stronger in his support of a sentence or paragraph. At best, the comment improves the work.

A perfect description.

(via @francescamain)

28 October 2011