“Ah, but they aren't violent until I've edited them.”

“Man is…a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.”

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”

“There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.”

“Every edit is a lie.”

“As I've often said, I'm a fan of hard SF. No, it's more like I am addicted to it, even the stepped-on 20 times and cut with pow[d]ered milk and rat-poison sort of hard SF. This gets us to Stephen Baxter's Mayflower II, published last year in a limited edition from PS Publishing. In one of the great tragedies of publishing, it was not a limited enough edition and so I have read it.”

“To write is human, to edit is divine.”

“Write drunk, edit sober.”

“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”