249 Quotes About Editing

Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.

In your future, cultivate productively the bits that you do know; and try tounderstand what others do before dismissing them or criticizing them. The worldis a big place with room for many truths, but is too small I think for error, forunsupported argument, and for attempts to make everyone see and do the samething the same way. We just do not know enough.

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

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

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

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Sometimes beauty lies in what is ignored. Sometimes beauty results from what is ignored.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

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.