Care Quote by Toni Morrison

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

— Mark Twain

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

— Nora Roberts

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

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

— Courtney B. Vance

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

— Bonnie McKee

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

— Robert Burchfield

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy -…

— David Remnick

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

— Taylor Swift

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

— John McWhorter