Better Quote by Chris Claremont

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Hampton Fancher

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

— Robert Gottlieb

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

— David Foster Wallace

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

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Terri Windling

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

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

— Andre Dubus