Critical Quote by A. Scott Berg

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the…

— John Hall Wheelock

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

— Tucker Max

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

— Anonymous

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

— John Jakes

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

“A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.”

— Justin Alcala

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher