Damn Quote by Mark Twain

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

— Robin Hobb

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

— Theodore White

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a…

— Lydia Davis

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

— Irwin Shaw

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.

— C. J. Cherryh

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

— Wolf Blitzer

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will…

— Sydney Smith

“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!”

— Margarita Gakis

You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.

— Carol Kane

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch