Believe Quote by Christopher Darden

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only…

— Chuck Klosterman

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are…

— Lord Chesterfield

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to…

— Laini Taylor

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include…

— Nick Hornby

Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never…

— Nick Laird

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and…

— Clay Shirky

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

— Walter Mosley

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I…

— Sandra Cisneros