Garbage Quote by C. J. Cherryh

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

You might not write well everyday, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

— Anonymous

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

— Jennifer Egan

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

— Jodi Picoult

“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!”

— Margarita Gakis

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

— Kim Smith

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their…

— Antonin Artaud

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love…

— Kim Smith

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee