Best Editing And Writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling 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?'”

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Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

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

Source: A Gift of Wings

“Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“I try to leave out the parts readers skip.”

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Author:Elmore Leonard

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”

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Book:Conversations with Capote

Source: Conversations with Capote

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

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Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

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Author:Robert Southey

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”

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Author:Burton Rascoe

“Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.”

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Author:Blake Morrison

“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”

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Author:Russell Lynes

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”

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Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.”

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Read, read read. Read everything.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“When you catch an adjective, kill it.”

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Book:The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.”

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Book:The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

Source: The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

“And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”

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Book:The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

Source: The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

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