Editing-humor Quote by Sandi Layne

“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.”

— Bobbi Romans

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

“Good editors are priceless.”

— Buffy Andrews

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

“All of us who write need a good editor.”

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to…

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Nora Roberts

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

— Daniel Okrent

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware…

— Ed Helms