249 Quotes About Editing

If we use the ‘pen of fiction’ to edit the ‘narrative of fact’ in order to justify our choices, we will soon discover that the pen is in fact a pencil.

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today!

An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.

Connie's other job was proof-editing which she did very badly. Transferring the author's corrections to a clean sheet of proofs was something Connie was unable to do without missing an average of three corrections a page, or transcribing newly inserted material all wrong... she put angry authors' letters about the mutilation of their books under the cushion of her chair to deal with later

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ...

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