Common Quote by Steven Pressfield

We think that we've gotten better over time editing ourselves, and when something doesn't feel right you kind of go, 'Let's put it to…

— Russell Mael

Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've…

— Bill Mollison

After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one time, and…

— Devin Townsend

My self-editing process is intense.

— George Murray

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

— Romulus Linney

“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge…

— CK Webb

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

As much as we are taught to appreciate those who correct us, we are reminded that there is a way of doing it.

— Mufti Ismail Menk

The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Anytime you try to force something that's not yourself, that's going to feel bad and it's going to feel inauthentic. But that doesn't mean…

— Heidi Gardner

“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

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when…

— Diane Setterfield