Editing Quotes

280 quotes by 249 authors

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
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference. — Bill Walsh
Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. — Flann O'Brien
Caesar is not above the grammarians. — Tiberius
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is… — Ernest Hemingway
Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity. — Michael Dirda
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity. — Hippocrates
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. — Henry Watson Fowler
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense… — Steven Pinker
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they… — Peter Drucker
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of… — Willa Cather
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!… — Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who can not write should. — Harlan Ellison
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character… — Steven Pinker
When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue… — Joe Dante
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room. — Joe Dante
I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It… — Lee Unkrich
I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the… — Fred Willard

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