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Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
— Laura Kreitzer
You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing.
— Guy Kawasaki
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.
— Quentin Tarantino
Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
— Constance Hale
I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.
— Aden Young
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening
— Joan Armatrading
Everyone needs an editor.
— Timothy Foote
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
— Chris Abani
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling
Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.
— Terry McDonell
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
— Tiffany Madison
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
— Horace
Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.
— Joan Silber
James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?
— Natasha Leggero
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
— T. Davis Bunn
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
— August Wilson
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[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.
— Barbara Sjoholm
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
— Christos Tsiolkas
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
— Flann O'Brien
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
— Janet Evanovich
Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.
— Gina McKnight
Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
— Stephanie Roberts
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.
— Joan Silber
If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
— Patricia Fuller
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.
— Jack McClelland
If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...
— Kira Hawke
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
— Fred Rodell
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
— Candace Camp
Editing is the essence of writing!
— Tarang Sinha
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
— Blake Morrison
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
— Werner Herzog
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Edit your author as you would be edited.
— Barbara Sjoholm
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
— George D. Prentice
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
— Dr. Seuss
Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.
— James D. Beers
Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
— Midnight Taylor
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and so on — Katerina Stoykova Klemer
No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
— Merilyn Simonds
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
— Richard B. Knight
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
— David Mitchell
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
— Tom Stoppard
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
— Rian Johnson
The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.
— Marion Roach Smith
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
— Joanne Harris
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.
— Stephen King
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
— Henry R. Luce
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
— Chuck Wendig
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught - prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
— Donald Barthelme
There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.
— Charles Bukowski
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
— Arthur Plotnik
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Only the blank page needs no editing.
— Marty Rubin
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
— Christina Baker Kline
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
— Gene Fowler
Anyone who can not write should.
— Harlan Ellison
Further editing deepens a story.
— A.D. Posey
You should edit before and after editing.
— Dwayne Fry
When writing, I always find that you should write through an obstacle instead of editing it out.
— Joseph Eastwood
