Doe Quote by Keith Rabois

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

— Keith Rabois

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

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

— Kinky Friedman

With a good editor you find yourself shaping as you talk and they will ask a couple of questions that open new things. Some…

— Ron Rosenbaum

Sometimes the most difficult thing you can do as an editor is not make a single note - the idea that everything and everyone…

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

— Anonymous

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

— Karin Slaughter

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a…

— Robert Gottlieb

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy -…

— David Remnick

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to…

— Robert Gottlieb

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

— Wally Wood

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