Kira Hawke Quote

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you misse...

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all other...

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

An editor doesn't just read, he reads , and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from...

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.

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

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.