Editing Quotes

My life needs editing.

Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, ...

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

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again an...

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a ...

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyedi...

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart...

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done,...

Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...

Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to re...

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up...

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts...

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for...

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion...