Top 10 Quotes AboutEditing

"Editing should be, especially in

the case of old writers, a

counseling rather than a

collaborating task. The tendency

of the writer-editor to

collaborate is natural, but he

should say to himself, 'How can I

help this writer to say it better in

his own style?' and avoid 'How

can I show him how I would write

it, if it were my piece?'"

- James Thurber 1.

"The best advice on writing was given to me by myfirst editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster,

while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft andthen we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to

realize how good the advice was. Even if you write itwrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then,when you have a flawed whole, do you know what

you have to fix."

- Dominick Dunne2.

- Blake Morrison

"Editing might be a bloodytrade, but knives aren’t the

exclusive property ofbutchers. Surgeons use

them too."

3.

"The main thing I try to do is writeas clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal

to make it clear." - E.B. White

4.

"I'm all for thescissors. I believe

more in thescissors than I do

in the pencil."

- Truman Capote5.

"You write tocommunicate to the heartsand minds of others what'sburning inside you, and we

edit to let the fire showthrough the smoke."

- Arthur Plotnik6.

"No authordislikes to be

edited as muchas he dislikes

not to bepublished."

- J. Russell Lynes

7.

"I would write a book, or a short story, at least

three times—once to understand it, the second

time to improve the prose, and a third to compel

it to say what it still must say. Somewhere I put it

this way: first drafts are for learning what one's

fiction wants him to say. Revision works with

that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea,

to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite

pleasures of writing."

- Bernard Malamud8.

- H.G. Wells

"No passion inthe world isequal to the

passion to altersomeone else's

draft."

9.

"Only kings, presidents, editors, and peoplewith tapeworms have the right to use the

editorial 'we'." - Mark Twain

10.

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