Acquire Quote by Lisa Scottoline

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

— Nora Roberts

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

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

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

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

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

— Robert Christgau

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication… Good editors are not 'permissive';…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Karen Thompson Walker