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Great quote about editors

This comes from Sam Taylor's The Amnesiac, a really cool book. This British author writes about "sub-editors," which seem to be pretty close to what we term copy editors here in the States, and which I have done for a living.
A copy editor is "essentially a kind of filter; it was my job to simplify and clarify other people's writing. I removed unnecessary sentences, corrected mistakes, reworked jumbled paragraphs. Where there was messiness, I brought order; where there was prolixity, brevity; where there was ambiguity, certainty. I was a policeman of words. I made each article fit neatly in its assigned box and sometimes gave it a headline too. The headlines were the sole source of amusement in the job: whereas in all my other tasks, I was expected to be sober, straightforward, machinelike, with the headlines I was free to have some fun. ... I don't remember now any of those headlines, but I remember the modest pleasure they gave me."

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