Rick Moranis Quotes

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely better looking.

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.

Everybody needs an editor.

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.