Asks Quote by Keith Rabois

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware…

— Ed Helms

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Kinky Friedman

“The Difference between Writers and Editors. Writers are creative using one end of a pencil. Editors are more adept using the opposite end.”

— Roy A Higgins

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

— Robert Christgau

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

— Steven Pressfield

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting that, I'm just…

— Ed Helms

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition…

— Joseph Kanon

My great strength as an editor, I believe, is structure: I know how to reorder a piece, I know how to reach into a…

— Hanya Yanagihara