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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

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

Verbose is not a synonym for literary. — Constance Hale

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly. — Leila Janah

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing ... — Barbara Degenevieve

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room. — Brent Sexton

Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. — Nick Cave

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma ... — R.D. Ronald

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again. — Martin Scorsese

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. — Adam Yauch

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back. — Lee Daniels

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

Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday. — Donal O'Callaghan

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing. — Anna Sui

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Length is weight in fiction, pretty much. — Joan Silber

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time? — Graham Hill

Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow
a test you can't cheat on. — S. Kelley Harrell

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. — Don Roff

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. — Betsy Lerner

Bucknell joined their family, editing her — Eloisa James

[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement. — Barbara Sjoholm

My life needs editing. — Mort Sahl

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm. — Christos Tsiolkas

Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time. — Kira Hawke

Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories. — Sloan Wilson

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. — Flann O'Brien

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas. — Catherine Hardwicke

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. — Gina McKnight

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. — Stephanie Roberts

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. — Colin Greenwood

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it. — Joshua Oppenheimer

The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder. — Marion Roach Smith

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest. — Rian Johnson

Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important. — Joan Silber

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. — Sofia Coppola

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity. — Michael Dirda

I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face. — Richard Due

It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained. — Diana Athill

Further editing deepens a story. — A.D. Posey

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before. — Taika Waititi

You should edit before and after editing. — Dwayne Fry

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. — Lynne Truss

Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver. — Evels

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in. — Sarah Vowell

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax. — Joanne Harris

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director. — Steve Martin

When writing, I always find that you should write through an obstacle instead of editing it out. — Joseph Eastwood

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for. — Stephen King

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along. — Wes Anderson

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. — Stephen King

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. — Alexander Payne

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room. — Liev Schreiber

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows. — Pete Waterman

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set. — Til Schweiger

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

Editing is the most companionable form of education. — Ed Weeks

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9. — Annalee Newitz

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty. — Chuck Wendig

You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day. — Patrick Wilson

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.' — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic. — Alison Tyler

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room. — Martin Short

Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle. — Fennel Hudson

AMELIA: .....thank you for understanding that I have no perception of time when I pick a release date. — Amelia Hutchins

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. — Bill Walsh

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught - prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski

Don't all Air Pirates know how to fry? — Jack Lewis Baillot

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. — Christian Marclay

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long. — Christian Marclay

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom. — Ralph Fiennes

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa

As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital. — Barry Levinson

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one. — Mike Nichols

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time. — Frank Darabont

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. — Red Red Rover

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. — Dennis Farina

For every hundred words I write (which might take about 10 minutes to spit out), I spend about 30 to 60 minutes of editing and rewriting. — Jeff Goins

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie. — J. C. Chandor

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses. — S. Kelley Harrell

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format. — Dick Latvala

Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly. — Harold Ross

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. — Sydney Pollack

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked. — Nick Kroll

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing. — Salma Hayek

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu