Quotes on “editing”

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.