Coming home Quote by Kim Smith

“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just…

— John A. Ashley

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

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

— Zadie Smith

Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else…

— Shane Carruth

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

— Quincy Jones

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

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the…

— Shirin Neshat

Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one…

— Sarah Dessen

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

— Billy Lawrence

Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

I guess if editing doesn't hurt, you're probably not doing it properly. I find it quite difficult. The hardest part is believing that it's…

— Markus Zusak