Books Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“All of us who write need a good editor.”

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.”

— Sydney Jane Baily

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

“Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

“Edit your author as you would be edited.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

“Authors are really polite and down to earth, it's just people always have a sarcastic and bully approach towards them. There is nothing wrong…

— Himmilicious

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette