Editors Quote by Victoria Woodhull

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

— Robert Gottlieb

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition…

— Joseph Kanon

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Robert Gottlieb

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

— H. L. Mencken

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive';…

— Peter Drucker

“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will…

— Stephen King

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

— Anonymous

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

— Linda Sue Park