Writing And Editing Quotes
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You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing.
— Guy Kawasaki
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.
— Aden Young
I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
— Don Roff
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
— Julie Delpy
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
— Lily King
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
— Tiffany Madison
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
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
— Ira Glass
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
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
— Janet Evanovich
Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.
— Gina McKnight
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
— Werner Herzog
Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.
— Richard Due
And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
— Arthur Plotnik
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
— David Mitchell
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
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
— Christina Baker Kline
You should edit before and after editing.
— Dwayne Fry
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
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
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
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
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
— Tom Stoppard