editing, n.All

Editing is necessary in writing. Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Editing is essential. Crossing out is the secret of all good writing.

Editing sometime consists in the writer working all the morning, and taking out a comma, and then in the afternoon putting it back again.

Editing is the beginning of writing an article. Only when you have finished it to your satisfaction do you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

Editing is a spector in every book. In a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Editing is a process whereby every edit is a lie.

Editing is crucial to the writing process. There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Editing is a good start, but one ought to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.