Amount Quote by Maya Lin

“Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.”

— Richard Due

“Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden.”

— Larry Enright

“Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.”

— Midnight Taylor

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

I was working outside the system 'cause I couldn't get into the system. But in fact I like going off and I like editing…

— Kelly Reichardt

“The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished works when…

— KC Woodworth

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It…

— Brit Marling

I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence.…

— Sheldon Harnick

You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but…

— John C. McGinley

When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop…

— Khalil Mack

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

— Matt Tong

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

— Alicia Keys