Editing Humor Quotes

#1. 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.

Don Roff

#2. Something had happened to that sorrow. It had gone rancid in him, he thought; it had boiled down to something he didn't understand. The pith of sorrow was in the upshot a little seed of death.

Sebastian Barry

#3. I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.

Pushpa Rana

#4. A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.

Sandi Layne

#5. The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just cause them to evolve into a sneakier, more robust breed.

John A. Ashley

#6. Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.

Eric T. Benoit

#7. Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.

Frank Black

#8. Art is born in attention.

Julia Cameron

#9. Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

Jeremy Aldana

#10. Bam! That's me off the cuff. Blunt and in your face. No editing. I think it. I say it. You read it. Sometimes I don't even think it, I just say it.

Stephen Colbert

#11. What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say ... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em.

Brent Weeks

#13. Don't all Air Pirates know how to fry?

Jack Lewis Baillot

#14. Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant.

Rhianna Pratchett

#15. There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuation eruption is guaranteed.

Ella Dominguez

#16. Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

Jeremy Clarkson

#17. I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Jim Carrey

#18. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

#19. Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Don Roff

#20. Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw- we need them both.

Orson Scott Card

#21. Edit until your fingers bleed, then take a few deep breaths and edit some more...

Stephen B. Seager

#22. 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.

Tiffany Madison

#23. My life needs editing.

Mort Sahl

#24. 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.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#25. Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.

Midnight Taylor

#26. Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time.

Kira Hawke

#27. For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes.

Suzanne Finnamore

#28. Editing is like strawberries put on the table as a centerpiece, before the full course meal, but, you don't want them to become spoiled, or your guests will go to the neighbor's house next door.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#29. With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

Holly Black