Top 23 Editing Books Quotes
#1. My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
Denis Dutton
#2. My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.
Margo Lanagan
#3. [I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#4. A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.
Etienne Davodeau
#5. I find it interesting I couldn't hear The Creator's voice until I realized it was female.
Peter Wilkes
#6. I don't believe in bad books. There's either not enough editing, imagination, or explanations. Triple-check everything.
B.A. Gabrielle
#7. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
Tamora Pierce
#8. I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
Janet Evanovich
#9. It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
Thiruvalluvar
#10. I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.
John Searles
#11. In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
Viggo Mortensen
#12. The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.
Tom Holland
#13. Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
Laura Kreitzer
#14. Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful.
Monika Pardon
#15. Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.
Pawan Mishra
#16. But here's an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too.
Sean Platt
#17. [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.
Jenna Bush
#18. A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
Bill Walsh
#20. When you're in the middle of it, nothing is as clearly defined as hindsight makes it appear.
Cynthia Kim
#21. The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
Jalal Talabani
#22. I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
Tao Lin
#23. I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
Fanny Burney
