Editor Quote by Edward St. Aubyn

“Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it…

— Jamie Weise

“Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate…

— Richard B. Woodward

“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”

— W.H. Auden

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

“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