Been Quote by Michael Morpurgo

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a…

— Shane McCrae

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only…

— Chuck Klosterman

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of…

— Per Petterson

Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling to bring…

— Hannah Tinti

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

— Hilary Liftin

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that…

— Kate DiCamillo

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a…

— Wendelin Van Draanen