Book Quote by Nathan Englander

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 painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

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

— Robert Christgau

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls…

— Judy Blume

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

— Wally Wood

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

— Theodore White

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

“The titles at the head of each book were prefixed, not by the authors, but by the early transcribers.”

— Robert Taylor

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted…

— Joe Simon

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

— Anonymous

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana