#editing

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

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

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#away #editing #finish #just #making

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

— George Wald

#editing #products #rather #than

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#best #bits #comes #creative #down

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

— Stephen King

#writing #diet

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end. ↗

— Richard B. Knight

#writing-life #writing-process #equality