Any Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to…

— Robert Gottlieb

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Anonymous

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes,…

— Norman Cousins

“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each…

— Sahara Sanders

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I…

— Ira Glass

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a…

— Jay Cassidy

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors…

— Michael Korda

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

— Nora Roberts

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

— Joseph Kanon