#editing

How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own? ↗

— Shaila M. Abdullah

#manuscript #writing #life

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#writing-craft #writing-craft

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#casting #downtime #edit #editing #elements

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#editing #expect #go #longer #make

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. ↗

— David Antin

#improvisation #jazz #just #procedures #talks

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#doubles #editing #i #like #trickery

When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things. ↗

— Ken Burns

#because #begin #editing #elements #episode

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. ↗

— George Wald

#editing #products #rather #than

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#camera #editing #feel #i #i feel

Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists not only cross borders but also subvert them. In mythology, the old Trickster figure Coyote is a champion border crosser, mischievously dashing from the land of the living to the land of the dead, from the wilderness world of magic to the human world. He tears things down so they can be made anew. He's a rascal, but also a culture hero, dancing on borders, ignoring the rules, as many of our most innovative artists do. I'm particularly drawn to art that crosses the borders critics have erected between 'high art' and 'popular culture,' between 'mainstream' and 'genre,' or between one genre and another -- I love that moment of passage between the two; that place on the border where two worlds meet and energize each other, where Coyote enters and shakes things up. But I still have a great love for traditional fantasy, for Imaginary World, center-of-the-genre stories. I'm still excited by series books and trilogies if they're well written and use mythic tropes in interesting ways. ↗

— Terri Windling

#editing #fantasy #genre #magic #mainstream