Dark Quote by Thomas Bidegain

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

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got…

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

— Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

— Allison Joseph

My self-editing process is intense.

— George Murray

“Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”

— S. Kelley Harrell