That’s the tricky part, not letting its goodness get in your way. Not being afraid to touch the half-finished piece for fear of messing it up. Letting yourself surrender your hopes for it again and again.
Bonnie Friedman
Great writers are great rewriters. Great writers have the humility to know that they aren’t so brilliant that perfect prose drops out of their brain on the first try. They’re also patient enough to keep tweaking until there’s nothing left to tweak.
Jenna Glatzer
I’m not changing my first intentions, but getting closer to what I really meant.
W.H. Auden
Criticism has nothing to do with the artist. It judges objectively, but the objective doesn’t concern the artist.
W. Somerset Maugham
What you do as an editor is search for patterns, at both the superficial and ever deeper levels – as deep as you can go.
Walter Murch
‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare