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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

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

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia. — Aden Young

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. — Werner Herzog

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

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

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. — Arthur Plotnik

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and so on — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. — David Mitchell

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

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. — Jeanne Voelker

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. — Christina Baker Kline

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

You should edit before and after editing. — Dwayne Fry

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

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

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

Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught - prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme