Sometimes Quote by Hampton Fancher

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

— Renata Adler

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

— Linda Sue Park

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

— Elmore Leonard

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

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

— Anonymous

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

— Nora Roberts

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher

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

— Robert Christgau

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a…

— Ben Hecht

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs