#editing

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

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

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#books #creative-process #creativity #editing #editing-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'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#editing #eight #hours #i #i do

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#before #camera #editing #else #his

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

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

— Drew Barrymore

#doubles #editing #i #like #trickery

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#dramatic #editing #film #mere #over