Sally Rooney Quotes

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually nonexistent shape in online journalism.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

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.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

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

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

I've never been a fast writer.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Everybody needs an editor.

The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the manuscript. Once all these changes are identified, a second-pass proof is made, and this, too, gets sent to the author and the proofreader, and the process begins anew.

I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.