Editing Quotes

280 quotes by 249 authors

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
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. — Alex Kapranos
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this… — Henry Adams
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. — Horace
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,… — David Sedaris
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is… — Steve Martin
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired… — David Hockney
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Of every four words I write, I strike out three. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an… — William Manchester
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final… — M H Abrams
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. — Ray Harryhausen
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. — Saint Francis de Sales
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… — Karen Thompson Walker
I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together.… — Charlie Day
It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even… — John Waters
I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to… — Judd Apatow
Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character… — Judd Apatow
When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed,… — Dolph Lundgren

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