Books Quote by Steven Pressfield

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does…

— Steven Pressfield

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

— Robert Christgau

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

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

— Hampton Fancher

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North

“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece…

— Monika Pardon