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.

A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don’t use it, you loose it

What I don’t have in theater is editing.

Sometimes a fresh perspective is all you need to get a second wind on the revision process. Try viewing your material on a different medium; it will shed a new light on the inconsistencies in...

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

On the Hunger Games Fan Race fail and the portrayal of POC in fantasy literature:It is as if the POC in the text are walking around with a great big red sign over them for...

If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, “Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you,” which is also sound advice today!

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”(Casual Chance, 1964)

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

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.

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?

Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.

Writing Tip:Don’t let the “writing rules” bog you down when you’re writing the first draft; they don’t matter when you’re writing the story, only when you’re editing the story.

I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

You can’t act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

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.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma…

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity…edit one more time!

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft …

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

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...