Editing Quote by Joan Silber Download Open image ““A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”” — Joan Silber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Time Writing
“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.” — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“We create the story, and at the same time, the story is what sets us in motion.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Every story is ultimately about characters, and how they are affected by their adventure.” — Chris Fox Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.” — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but… — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.” — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people… — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still,… — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.” — Joan Silber 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
“It’s easy to see what to do once it’s already been done. The difficult time is before it’s to be done, and while you’re… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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