Craft Quote by Michael J. Kannengieser

“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece…

— Monika Pardon

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

— Dan Poynter

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

— Anonymous

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

— Nora Roberts

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

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

— T. S. Eliot

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

“The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished works when…

— KC Woodworth

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting…

— William Saroyan

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson