Clean Quote by Jimmy Wales

Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling to bring…

— Hannah Tinti

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

— Harold Ross

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

— Harold Ross

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

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

— Michael Korda

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own…

— Tiffany Madison

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love…

— Kim Smith

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

— Stephen Hopkins

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

— H. L. Mencken

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

— William H. Gass

There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a few concerns…

— Sheila Heti

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like…

— Fran Lebowitz