Better Quote by Jack Kerouac

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads, 'Watered by…

— Ron Brackin

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines…

— P. J. O'Rourke

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

— Sallie Tisdale

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

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

— George Orwell

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or…

— Steve Toltz

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I know I'm a better editor than I was when I began, twenty years ago. I'm less scared of the text, I'm less scared…

— Hanya Yanagihara