Quotes about Editing

orr we find a typo in a book.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Bad grammar makes me [sic].

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.