Better way Quote by Crawford Kilian

“If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some…

— Paul Graham

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living…

— Don Roff

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a…

— Kurt Loder

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part…

— Samuel Johnson

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

— Robin Hobb

Should have written it in a different format

— Crystal

“Simply put: writing is rewriting.”

— Ronald Dane

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

— Zadie Smith

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible…

— Richard Russo

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

— Anonymous

“It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up…

— Noriko Ogiwara