Annoying Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

— Thorstein Veblen

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Nora Roberts

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

— Jackie Kennedy

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

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do…

— Tobias Wolff

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe:…

— Harlan Ellison