Austria Quote by Mark Twain

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Nora Roberts

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

— Gerald Brenan

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

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

— Anonymous

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

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Kinky Friedman

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

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer