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Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

Every edit is a lie.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

I don't like fast editing.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.