Bases Quote by Jami Attenberg

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

— Nora Roberts

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the…

— John Gardner

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— T. S. Eliot

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

— Bill Joy

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

— Robert Christgau

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

— Irwin Shaw

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors…

— Michael Korda

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

— Stephen Ambrose

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make…

— Gail Simone