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

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.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

I don't really consider myself a writer.

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

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.