Editing Quotes

I've always loved the editing process.

— Kate Herron

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

— Tiberius

My self-editing process is intense.

— George Murray

Everyone needs an editor.

— Timothy Foote

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

— Tom Stoppard

What I don't have in theater is editing.

— Julie Taymor

You can't revise a blank page.

— Leonard Wolf

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

— Mark Twain

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

— George D. Prentice

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

— Mike Nichols

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

— Harold Ross

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

— Sydney Pollack

“Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.”

— Joan Silber

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

— Peter Billingsley

Before you let your heart do all the talking...Let your Brain do the editing...

— Anonymous

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

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

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like…

— Frank Darabont

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

— Patrick Wilson

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

— Christian Marclay

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

— Robert Gottlieb

“The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them.”

— Austin Kleon

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you…

— Dhanush

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect,…

— Brad Pitt

I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I…

— Katie Holmes

“Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all…

— Jack London

Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our…

— David Richo

If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how…

— Tania James

I think everyone knows that I'm always the one that's the busiest in Maiden. When we're not touring or recording, I'm still…

— Steve Harris

'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you…

— Joseph Fiennes

Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but…

— Orson Welles

As with editing, I think my strength as a writer is structure. It's not a skill that's much discussed when we discuss…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen…

— Ann Friedman

“This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to…

— Rudyard Kipling

If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of…

— Robert Fulghum

Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a…

— Raymond Chandler

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that…

— Ben Fountain