#editing

I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better. ↗

— Lynn Povich

#change

I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions") ↗

— Michael Marshall Smith

#proofreading #change

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#life #regret #experience

A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible. ↗

— Sandi Layne

#humor

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival. ↗

— Jack McClelland

#publishing #survival #writing #imagination

My life needs editing. ↗

— Mort Sahl

#editing #life #my life #needs

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books. ↗

— Betsy Lerner

#writers #money

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning. ↗

— Rachel True

#actually #areas #beginning #collage #editing

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#aspects #assumes #choice #edit #editing

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#computer #curvy #editing #feminine #like