Top Editing Quotes

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.

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

Editing Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edit

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

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

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...

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...

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

Further editing deepens a story.

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise...

Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists not only cross borders but also subvert them. In mythology...

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

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

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