Books Quote by Anonymous

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition…

— Joseph Kanon

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

— Irwin Shaw

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

— Nora Roberts

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

— Lisa Scottoline

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

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

— T. S. Eliot

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love…

— Kim Smith

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling