Advisors Quote by Guy Kawasaki

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

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

— Nora Roberts

“A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.”

— Justin Alcala

“An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.”

— Toni Morrison

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

— Anonymous

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

— Terri Windling

“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

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition…

— Joseph Kanon

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau