“Donna Wares is a story's best friend. She is skilled at divining what works are really about and helping writers to communicate that essence – in their own style, not hers.”

“I've been through a lot of editors in the newspaper and book world, and Donna Wares is among the very few I trust. That's because she trusted me ­ my instincts, my ear ­ and trusted herself. She never hesitated to let me know when I had fallen short, and her judgment about such matters was almost always right. She is a reader, first, and then an editor, and you cannot ask for anything more.”

– Mark Arax, PEN Award- winning journalist and author of In My Father's Name.

“Word travels fast in the newsroom, so I knew Donna Wares by reputation before we met. She was an assistant city editor then, and I was coaching one of the half dozen reporters on her team. When I commented on a great improvement in her writing, the reporter said: ‘Give the credit to Donna; she's the first editor I ever met who listened to me. She heard what I was trying to say and helped me say it better.’ That sums up Donna Wares' continued success in the word business: She listens. She cares. She helps writers say it better. That's what it's all about.”

— Veteran writing coach Jim Hayes