Communication Quote by Alexander Chee

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

— Robert Christgau

A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two…

— William Zinsser

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing…

— Robert B. Weide

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

— Thorstein Veblen

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part…

— Sherley Anne Williams

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

— Anonymous

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

— Anonymous

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

— Hampton Fancher

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of…

— Quentin Tarantino