Editing Quote by Joseph Addison

“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.”

— Joseph Addison

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

— Gregory Rabassa

In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing. Then when…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Anyone who can not write should.

— Harlan Ellison

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a…

— Lydia Davis

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going…

— Steven Spielberg

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate…

— James Thurber

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture…

— Jenna Bush

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests…

— Judith Thurman

There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's…

— Ethan Hawke

The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a…

— Julie Delpy