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I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I…

— Anita Shreve

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes,…

— Norman Cousins

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

— Joan Armatrading

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

— Zadie Smith

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Self-editing a novel is like trying to put pants on a cat: yes, it's painful and time consuming, but in the end, satisfying.”

— Robert Jack

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

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I…

— Louis Sachar

I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look…

— Tania James

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