Editing Quotes
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Editing Quotes & Sayings
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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 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 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
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 growa 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
Bucknell joined their family, editing her
— Eloisa James
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[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
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
Further editing deepens a story.
— A.D. Posey
You should edit before and after editing.
— Dwayne Fry
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
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
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
AMELIA: .....thank you for understanding that I have no perception of time when I pick a release date.
— Amelia Hutchins
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
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
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
A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
— Tom Stoppard
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.
— Stephen King
I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
— Salma Hayek
