Editing And Writing Quotes
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
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The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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Sit down and 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.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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When you catch an adjective, kill it.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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