Editing Quote by E. Nesbit

“Good editors are priceless.”

— Buffy Andrews

“All of us who write need a good editor.”

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the…

— John Gardner

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

— Nora Roberts

“A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide.”

— Ariel Levy

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

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

“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

“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.”

— K Lee Lerner

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf