What do editors do, and is a book one person's work?

Axis: editors are co-creators ... editors only polish

John

date	change	position	video
2011-01-21	new	John says it would be wrong to say he wrote Looking for Alaska alone: his mentor, his editor, his wife and others all wrote parts of it.	Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:01:55
2011-06-06	restate	John argues editors exist neither mainly to fix grammar nor to censor; the editorial letter is the real work, and writers may not be more important than editors.	Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors 00:02:37
2011-08-26	restate	John says Sarah contributed tons of ideas to his novels, from Looking for Alaska to Paper Towns, and hugely to The Fault in Our Stars.	Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. 00:03:05
2011-08-31	restate	John says Ilene is the only reason Looking for Alaska exists, that he writes books, and that there is Brotherhood 2.0 or Nerdfighteria.	How to Become An Adult 00:02:46
2013-01-16	restate	John says a book is not made by one person: a private person, Sarah, his publisher, agent, John Darnielle, Hank and T. S. Eliot all wrote parts of TFIOS.	An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:59:48