Art Quote by Brie Edison

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

— Nora Roberts

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you. We are…

— Phoebe North

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“On Editors: "... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think they prefer…

— Jack London

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

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

— T. S. Eliot

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont