"The secret to editing your work is simple:……" — Zadie Smith

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

— Zadie Smith

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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a…

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More Editing Quotes

This quote is filed under Editing Quotes, one of 280 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. — Graydon Carter
The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate… — Graydon Carter
I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with… — Margaret Cho
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst… — Priyanka Chopra
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everyone needs an editor. — Timothy Foote
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. — August Wilson
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. — Blake Morrison

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