1.   Another liberal editor told friends that the cover upset him more because of its suggestion that Americans are undertaxed than its religious implications.

2.   Before, the editors would always tell you what they wanted.

3.   A newspaper is the sum of its parts, as a great editor once told me.

4.   But it was in that conversation with Bast, she said, that the editor told her the fun might be ending.

5.   But the sports editor delightedly told me it was true.

6.   Editing, as any newspaper editor will tell you, is a second chance to get things right.

7.   Editors tell them where to look.

8.   Especially in fiction, publishing-house editors can tell whether authors are guessing instead of legitimately setting scenes.

9.   For years, editors have been telling each other the public wants hard facts.

10.   My editor had told me that it was OK to lie in certain situations.