Book Quote by Chuck Klosterman

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to…

— Robert Gottlieb

“Almost the first thing I learned about being an editor was that it was hard work. To be sure, ditchdiggers and miners have it…

— Michael Korda

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

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that…

— Christopher Darden

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes,…

— Norman Cousins

I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love…

— Danielle Dutton

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

— Terri Windling

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

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

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a…

— Shane McCrae

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

— Nora Roberts

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of…

— Per Petterson