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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

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

Verbose is not a synonym for literary. — Constance Hale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless. — Susan Bell

A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means. — Joan Silber

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words. — Alessandra Torre

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

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

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

Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately. — James D. Beers

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss

Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath. — Midnight Taylor

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

Caesar is not above the grammarians. — Tiberius

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

Editing is the essence of writing! — Tarang Sinha

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

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

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. — Patricia Fuller

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

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 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

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

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach