Editing Quote by Jay Cassidy

A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could…

— Oliver Harris

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

— Catherine Hardwicke

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to…

— Robert Gottlieb

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests…

— Judith Thurman

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate…

— Walter Murch

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the…

— Rachel True

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

— Fay Weldon

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

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

— Sydney Pollack

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad…

— Meyer Schapiro

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a…

— Robert Gottlieb