#editing

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#authorship #editing #relationship

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#cutting-edge #day #editing #every #every day

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

— David Antin

#improvisation #jazz #just #procedures #talks

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#affect #allowed #cut #cuts #dailies

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#done #editing #mail #plan #software

Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden. ↗

— Larry Enright

#beauty

I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better. ↗

— Lynn Povich

#change

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 Smith

#proofreading #change

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

— Jeanne Voelker

#writing #death

I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #diet