Editing Manuscript Quotes

#1. A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.

Oliver Harris

#2. I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

Alan Turing

#3. I am the discoverer of Quantum Editing, the process whereby the amateur editor keeps being changed by the editing he does, requiring him to further edit the manuscript, changing him yet further, etc.

Matt Chatelain

#4. I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.

William Manchester

#5. The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Judith Thurman

#6. Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity ... edit one more time!

C.K. Webb

#7. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Brene Brown

#8. You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Most people released from prison after being proved innocent receive no money, no assistance, no counseling - nothing from the state that wrongly imprisoned them. At

Bryan Stevenson

#10. God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. [I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.

Barbara Sjoholm

#12. You know your chances with me always get worse, the more you talk. And Kelly finally shut up. For a block, anyway ...

Cara McKenna

#13. That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

Richard Peck

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Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#15. Put your manuscript down, I'd recommend at least two months. Six would be ideal. You really need to get away from it long enough to change your mindset. Unless you have a photographic memory, this technique will work. You'll transform into the one thing you crave feedback from: a reader.

A.J. Flowers

#16. I've been extremely fortunate in that my career allows me to be seen and heard by people all over the world and I know that my only option is to utilize this gift to speak for those who may not have the means, courage, or strength to speak out.

Sufe Bradshaw

#17. Hope makes the wise stronger and the unwise weaker.

Raheel Farooq