Been Quote by Peter Davison

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

— David Grann

I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love…

— Danielle Dutton

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

— Lynne Truss

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

— Victoria Chang