Doe Quote by Norman Mailer

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an…

— John Hyams

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make…

— Robert Stone

As a writer, you are free.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

— Joe Dante

Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.

— Ellis

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from a memory

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Allison Joseph

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

— Lisa Scottoline

Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want it exactly…

— Jenny Zhang

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

— Helen McCloy