An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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.
There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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.
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