Humour-quote Quote by Roy A Higgins

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

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

— T. S. Eliot

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

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

— Anonymous

“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change…

— Nicole Huggins

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

— Robert Gottlieb

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

— Chris Claremont

“Writers write because they're writers.”

— Brian A. McBride

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best…

— Keith Rabois

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

— Steven Pressfield