Editing Quote by Joan Silber Download Open image ““Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.”” — Joan Silber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Writing
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You can feel the distance. It carries a weight that's heavier than anything.” — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.” — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry.” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.” — Leah Hager Cohen 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
“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.” — 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
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
