Editing Quote by Thelma Schoonmaker

Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else…

— Shane Carruth

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

— Sydney Pollack

Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

— Joe Dante

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

— Christian Marclay

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

Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one…

— Sarah Dessen

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

I guess if editing doesn't hurt, you're probably not doing it properly. I find it quite difficult. The hardest part is believing that it's…

— Markus Zusak

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

— Margaret Atwood

A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could…

— Oliver Harris

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

— Esther Freud