Editors Quote by David Chase

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts…

— Alex Ebert

I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I…

— Ralph Fiennes

I think a lot of people have the idea of an editor being someone who comes in like a dictator, and says, "You can't…

— Cheryl Strayed

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what…

— Stephen King

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

— Robert Gottlieb

I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

— Stephen Hopkins

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

— Joyce Carol Oates

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

— Jackie Kennedy

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

— Vikram Chandra

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Nora Roberts