Better off alone Quote by Toni Morrison

“A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide.”

— Ariel Levy

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

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the…

— John Gardner

“Good editors are priceless.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Editors are the literary surgeons of the world.”

— Suzanne Steele

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

— Nora Roberts

“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.”

— K Lee Lerner

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

— Robert Gottlieb

“When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.”

— Fierce Dolan

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

“It's very difficult to train a good editor," the author said.”

— Val Edward Simone