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#editing

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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.


Oliver Stone


#because #being #cut #distinctive #editing

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.


Anna Sui


#collection #creating #editing #involve #lot

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.


Terry Gilliam


#because #could #editing #finishing #i

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.


Stephanie Roberts


#fiction #fiction-writing #love

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.


Don Roff


#humor #revision #writing #humor

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically: His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong. Her editor would cut that line.


Jaclyn Moriarty


#humor #romance-novel #writers #writers-block #humor

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.


Laura Kreitzer


#grammar #writing #ya #grammar

Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.


Eric T. Benoit


#humor #reviews #yoda #humor

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#conflation #editing #exaggeration #francis-bacon #shakespeare

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.


Nicole Eggert


#directing #editing #energy #fans #i






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