#editing

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#books #deadlines #editing #even #expect

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#cardinal #checked #copy #editing #error

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#editing #finds #great #makes #people

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

#compromise #editing #go #half #i

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. ↗

— Maya Lin

#convey #down #editing #goal #i

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#editing #going #i #movie #now

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. ↗

— Jeanne Voelker

#writing #death

I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #diet

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. ↗