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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. — Nora Roberts

I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit. — Michael Mann

Write. Edit. Repeat. — Miles White

Put another way, to write is human, to edit is divine. — Stephen King

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. — Lydia Davis

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. — Mark Twain

To write is human, to edit is divine. — Stephen King

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs. — David Icke

We stitch together our days and edit out our nights. — Julia Leigh

Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku. — Frank Black

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself. — Marianne Faithfull

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. — Anita Shreve

I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes. — Paul O'Grady

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? — S. Kelley Harrell

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. — Ira Glass

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult

It is perfectly okay to write garbage
as long as you edit brilliantly. — C.J. Cherryh

I am Psmith. I sub-edit. — P.G. Wodehouse

I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly. — Greg Behrendt

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in. — Lynn Shelton

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean. — Robert Gottlieb

Try reading out loud when you edit your work. Your ears will pick out mistakes that your eyes are blind to. — L.F.Young

If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story. — Edwin D. Ferretti III

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different. — Rob Brown

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? edit — John Green

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit. — Rachael Taylor

I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. — Tony Scott

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have. — Kyle Dunnigan

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages. — Garrett Hedlund

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here. — Ben Nicholson

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week. — Karina Longworth

I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate. — Andy Dick

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'. — Jay Maisel

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form. — Susanne Bier

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. — Madeleine Stowe

CRT teaches us: reflect, inhibit, and edit. — Anonymous

Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain — Anders Petersen

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. — Allan Gurganus

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images. — Leos Carax

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this. — Hunter S. Thompson

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Write from the heart, edit from the head, — Stuart Aken

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. — Kurt Loder

I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere. — Gabriel Iglesias

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken. — Myra McEntire

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit. — Kristin Armstrong

Truth hurts, it can't be buried. One moment she goes out... — Deyth Banger

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. — Cheryl Strayed

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline

How had I managed to edit all this out in the intervening years? How had I managed to turn her into the answer to all the world's problems? — Nick Hornby

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us. — Buffy Andrews

For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes. — Suzanne Finnamore

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast. — Robert Giroux

Edit your author as you would be edited. — Barbara Sjoholm

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. — Arthur Plotnik

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet. — Chloe Sevigny

Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time — Debbie Behan

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team. — Keith Rabois

Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance. — Sherry Turkle

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer. — Jennifer Doudna

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. — Donald Miller

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately. — Paul Collins

When you manic you create, when you depressed you edit — Leo Kottke

Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing. — Joseph Cavano

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. — Nia Vardalos

We must never edit God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before. — Rodney Richards

if you may edit, edit yourself — George Spirakis

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. — Shane McCrae

Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word. — Andy Hollandbeck

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience. — Victor LaValle

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do. — Niecy Nash

I don't edit information, I follow it. — David Icke

When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received. — Marshall Curry

Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things. — Peter Landesman

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. — Josh Radnor

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. — Ian Hart

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. — Jill McCorkle

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking. — Casey Neistat

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all. — Nathan W. Morris

There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit. — Jonathan Galassi

You can't edit a blank page — Nora Roberts

Control, edit and distill. — Van Day Truex

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. — Peter Jackson

You should edit before and after editing. — Dwayne Fry

You can edit crap, but you can't edit nothing. — Anita Bell

Write drunk; edit sober. — Peter De Vries

Edit more, my mantra. — Sarah Honenberger

To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. — Henry David Thoreau

Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing. — Truman Capote

I confess ... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness. — Michelle M. Pillow

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit. — Lauren Oliver

Only if you are reaady to change yourself can you be ready to change the world. — Edit Schlaffer

Every edit is a lie. — Jean-Luc Godard

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H.G.Wells

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. — Erica Jong

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write. — Jim Lewis