Editors Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens…

— Stephen Richards

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a…

— Jeanne DuPrau

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

— Karl Kraus

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Anonymous

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

— Oscar Wilde

“I have never met a writer who didn't need an editor, and an editor without a writer is a person without a job. It…

— Alex Beam

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

— Wally Wood