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Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

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.

I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

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

Yeah, writers do hate writing.