Quotes about Editing

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Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly tra — Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the m — Barrie Kerper, Paris: The Collected Traveler
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff — Colette
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step ba — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. — Patricia Fuller
Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow — Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shi — Don Roff
Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are — C.K. Webb
I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. — Jeanne Voelker
I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival. — Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters
It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule requ — Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive ward — Tiffany Madison
How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma — Shaila M. Abdullah
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castl — Shannon Hale
The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and mak — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appea — E.A. Bucchianeri
I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I jus — Brent Weeks
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so m — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly