Quotes About Editing

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

his style. "Brighten it, brighten it, brighten it!" he once instructed his subeditor W. H. Wills, after reading an article that was insufficiently "Dickensian

He'd also learned the value of concealing personal information, and of editing the stories you told about yourself, to avoid becoming entangled in other people's notions of who you must be.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

He was an editor for seven years before directing his first film, and his career stands as an argument for the theory that editors make better directors than cine-matographers do; the cinematographer is seduced by the look of a film, while the editor is faced with the task of making it work as a story.

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

More often, a poem went through twenty or thirty drafts with amazing numbers of alterations

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

Memoria este un proces de editare care exagereaz? inevitabil unele episoade, le reprim? pe altele È™i aranjeaz? evenimentele într-o ordine mai clar?, dar nimeni nu recunoaÈ™te asta despre propria memorie.

If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

played across her face. "It's like that famous quote, 'If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

Her nickname during her latter years editing the Chronicle had been satnav because she would happily tell anyone where to go.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

The lesson here is, don't try to cram too much into one sentence; and the issue lies less in length than it does in content. Any time you feel the need to explain some aspect of your basic sentence, take pause. Odds are that what's bothering you really calls for an additional sentence or two or three, so that you can keep your developing line of thought straight and clear and simple.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers ' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

The best way to lie is to tell the truth . . . carefully edited truth.

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the manuscript. Once all these changes are identified, a second-pass proof is made, and this, too, gets sent to the author and the proofreader, and the process begins anew.