Edit Quotes

“How do text messages make you feel existential?

I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.”
― Michael Lee

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz”
― James Lee Schmidt, liQUID PROse QUOtes

“When you live today, being accountable for yesterday, today will be better because you would have taken the chance to know the activities and people who unmade and made your day and edit today's plans for the better.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.”
― V.T. Davy, Black Art

“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.”
― Sandra E. Lamb

“Your first draft is not a gold nugget. It might be a nugget, but it's not golden.”
― Ethan Nahté

“I once wrote a 100,000-word book. But don't worry, I managed to edit it down to just over one million words.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you tell me that I have to write the story of my life, I would be very quick to tell you that God has already written it. What I have to do is to quit playing editor.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Truth hurts, it can't be buried. One moment she goes out...”
― Deyth Banger

“Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“God has graciously given us all things. Yet when He handed us the Bible, the one thing that He didn’t give us was a pencil with an eraser on it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Look as I might, none of the Bibles that I have ever owned came with a set of editing pencils or a pack of whiteout.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't get stuck on labels. Write, edit, publish and promote. You choose which you want to be. You can be an author, a writer, an indie or a bestselling novelist. Be a writer first and let the path you make lead to the goal you set.”
― Alex G Zarate

“Semua orang perlu diedit”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“For what it’s worth, I think you don’t have it covered, and if you need a helping hand, you know mine is good for more than fingering.” “Disgusting, but thank you.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“Most of our mistakes are not made in haste, but rather in the state of extreme carefulness.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia