Done Quote by Bill Joy

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an…

— John Hyams

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

— Mark Ruffalo

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

— Vince Flynn

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

— Wolf Blitzer

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say,…

— John Romita, Sr

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

— Shane McCrae

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft…

— Alex Flinn

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix