Editing Humor Quotes

“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

“Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.”
― Sandi Layne

“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

“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“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

“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

“Edit until your fingers bleed, then take a few deep breaths and edit some more...”
― Stephen B. Seager, Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane

“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads, 'Watered by well water.' One of these days, no matter how hard I try to resist, I just know I'm going to paint it out to read, 'Irrigated by well water.' If you don't get this, it's because you're not a writer.”
― Ron Brackin

“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.”
― Mary Norris

“Write like God is your best friend but edit like a tough bitch.”
― Donna Goddard, Writing: A Spiritual Voice

“Two writes make a wrong and a write - editing.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“I rewrite because unwrite is unavailable.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“IF YOU HAVE TO AIRBRUSH YOUR PHYSIQUE, YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING
WRONG. SOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO FILTERS ARE THE MODERN-DAY BALACLAVA. IF YOU GO MISSING,
EVERYONE'S GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR ANGELINA JOLIE, WHEN THEY SHOULD BE
LOOKING FOR A BULLDOG CHEWING A WASP”
― Matt Hodges