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Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent. — Auliq Ice

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

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

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours. — Peter Landesman

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

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

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything. — Terry McDonell

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

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

Bucknell joined their family, editing her — Eloisa James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all. — Sue Naegle

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

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

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. — Donnie Yen

manuscript
meanuscript
moanuscript
manurescript
and so on — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting. — Kristen Stewart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

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

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

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