I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
Don RoffTags: humor writing editing revision
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Tiffany MadisonTags: writing joy prison neurosis editing anxiety writing-life editors neurotics editing-humor
I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.
Libba BrayTags: writing authors editing revision
I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions")
Michael Marshall SmithTags: proofreading editing
Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: editing
A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: editing
If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?
S. Kelley HarrellTags: memoir editing diary journaling
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: shakespeare editing francis-bacon exaggeration aggrandization conflation
It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.
Betsy LernerTags: writing-craft editing
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
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