Quotes about Editing
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]
- Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
- Anne Lamott
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground—you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip.
- Anne Lamott
orr we find a typo in a book.
- Seth Godin
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
- Donald Miller
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.
- Samuel Johnson
You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
- Ernest Hemingway
How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.
- Ernest Hemingway
I've always loved the editing process.
- Kate Herron
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
- Dr. Seuss