Editing Quote by Harold Ross Download Open image “Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.” — Harold Ross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Writing
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer. — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece… — Monika Pardon Copy Share Image
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
