Editing Quote by Joseph Kanon Download Open image “When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.” — Joseph Kanon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appreciator Appreciator Writer Editing Editing Want Perfect Perfect Appreciator Want Writer Writing
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
Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each… — Sahara Sanders 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 usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about. — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition… — Joseph Kanon 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
