{"quotes":[{"text":"A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase 'I love you,' it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz.","author":"James Lee Schmidt","tags":["abstract","art","artist","books","edit","editor","humor","i-love-you","instagram","instagram","instaquote","james-joyce","life","literature","love","paint","painting","picture","relationships","surreal","ulysses","visual","write","writer","writing"],"id":24532,"author_id":"James+Lee+Schmidt"},{"text":"People who make snide comments to authors like 'anyone can write a book' or 'well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard' or poke at a book because it's 'romance' or 'genre fiction' and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... Well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait.","author":"Michelle M. Pillow","tags":["adult-fiction","book","book-writing","edit","genre-fiction","haters","writing","writing-life"],"id":29392,"author_id":"Michelle+M.+Pillow"},{"text":"I confess... If I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.","author":"Michelle M. Pillow","tags":["edit","facebook","facebook","social-media"],"id":48473,"author_id":"Michelle+M.+Pillow"},{"text":"The internet is killing the art of writing. The big 'publish' button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","criticism","edit","editing","editing","edition","how-to-edit","how-to-publish","how-to-publish-a-book","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","internet","internet-publishing","internet-publishing","internet","online-publishing","online-publishing","paper","positive-criticism","praise","publish","publish-button","self-publishing","self-publishing","self-publishing-tips","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-skill","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":49950,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acronym","across","acrostics","bitch","edit","editing","editing-humor","itch","itch-the-book","poems","poetry","scratch","scratching","ticking","tics","write","writer","writers-and-writing","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-books","writing-craft"],"id":70346,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.","author":"Sandra E. Lamb","tags":["apology","application","business","edit","email","etiquette","forgiveness","grammar","interview","letters","memos","negotiation","presentation","proposal","report","resume","revise","rewrite","sales-tips","speech","style","success","thank-you","usage","words","writing"],"id":80513,"author_id":"Sandra+E.+Lamb"},{"text":"You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.","author":"V.T. Davy","tags":["arty","censor","channel","crime","detective","edit","history","islands","nazi","past","present","rewrite","shaw","stasi"],"id":212236,"author_id":"V.T.+Davy"},{"text":"If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["dividend","edit","editing","egocentric","giving","greed","misconstrue","misunderstand","misunderstood","narcissism","narcissistic","question","return","sacrifice","sacrifices","sacrificial","sacrificing","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","selfless","wisdom","word","wording"],"id":215691,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.","author":"Adi Alsaid","tags":["book","crazy","edit","existential","fun","lie","mind","read","reading","reality","text","thought","truth","truthful","world"],"id":230023,"author_id":"Adi+Alsaid"},{"text":"You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["apologies","apologize","apologize","apologizing","apologizing","apology","apology-and-attitude","apology-note","apology","bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","edit","editing","editing","editing-words","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","paper","sorry","sorry-for","sorry","sorry","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","withdraw","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":321343,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}