Talking Quote by Irwin Shaw

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

— Nora Roberts

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

— Lisa Scottoline

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

— H. L. Mencken

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

— Anonymous

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to…

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Kinky Friedman

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware…

— Ed Helms

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

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

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Karen Thompson Walker