Edit your author as you would be edited.

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best…

— K. M. Soehnlein

I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can…

— Mira Gonzalez

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're…

— Daniel Espinosa

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then…

— David Cross

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

— Russell Lynes

“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…

— Colette

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in…

— Louis Leterrier

I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera…

— Tony Scott

“I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.”

— Buffy Andrews

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I…

— Lauren Oliver

You can't edit a blank page

— Nora Roberts

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,…

— Paul Rand