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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 generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. — Keith Rabois

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

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

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

Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option. — Court 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

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma ... — R.D. Ronald

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 shit out of it. — Don Roff

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

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky. — Julie Delpy

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love. — Lily King

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

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. — Don Roff

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. — August Wilson

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best. — Ira Glass

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. — Betsy Lerner

[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement. — Barbara Sjoholm

When reading I pretend I'm an editor, though when writing I realize I'm not. — Fierce Dolan

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

Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time. — Kira Hawke

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

If you treat editing like you're making an abridged version of your book, it can help determine what's vital vs what can be cut. — Kira Hawke

We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard before. — Scott Norton

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

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes

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

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited. — Kim Smith

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

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate. — Joan Silber

Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished. — Richard Due

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

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones

Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important. — Joan Silber

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

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity. — Michael Dirda

I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face. — Richard Due

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

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. — Sydney Pollack

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

Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle. — Fennel Hudson

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

The slow turtle wins the race!" at it pertains to writing and editing well. — Dennis De Rose

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

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

I have a real problem with bloat
I write like fat ladies diet. — Stephen King

Anyone who can not write should. — Harlan Ellison

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own. — John E. Carson

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc. — Kevin Smith

Further editing deepens a story. — A.D. Posey

You should edit before and after editing. — Dwayne Fry

Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver. — Evels

When writing, I always find that you should write through an obstacle instead of editing it out. — Joseph Eastwood

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. — Stephen King

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. — Alexander Payne

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for. — Stephen King