"Don't overedit. By so doing you will estrange your writers and rob the magazine of its indispensable variety." — Ellery Sedgwick, longtime editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
"[T]here is no end to the work that can be done to improve a manuscript; at the same time, you don't want to flatten it out or get rid of any sparkle." — Helen Gurley Brown, legendary longtime editor of Cosmopolitan, in her 1998 book, "The Writer's Rules."
"He edits best who edits least." — Arnold Gingrich, founding editor of Esquire magazine.
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