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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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