Competition Quote by Joseph Kanon

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

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

— Anonymous

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

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I…

— Ira Glass

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

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Anonymous

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

— Karen Thompson Walker

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

— Courtney B. Vance

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker