Edits Quotes - Page 7

• Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

  James Scott Bell

  Writing, Like You

  James Scott Bell (2016). “Just Write: Creating Unforgettable Fiction and a Rewarding Writing Life”, p.241, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

  Garry Marshall

  School, Play, Genius

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• Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

  Ben Nicholson

  Cutting, Boards, Direct

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• Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

  Barbara Johnson

  Teaching, Reading, Reality

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• You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Writing, Feminist

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• Control, edit and distill.

  Van Day Truex

  Design, Interior Design

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• And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

  Kurt Loder

  Important, Literature, Can Do

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• I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Looks

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• Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

  Erica Jong

  Discipline

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• We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

  Philippa Perry

  Filters, Needs, Looks

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• I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Figures

  "What’s More Important to You: the Initial Rush of Prose or the Self-Editing and Revision That Come After It?". www.nytimes.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Materials, Whole, I Can

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• I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, School

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• I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technology, Sound, Computer

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• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Marriage, Finals, Proposal

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• I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

  Lee Unkrich

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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• When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Thinking, Too Much

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• When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing, you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.

  Joe Dante

  Eye, Editing, Issues

  "Joe Dante On How Converted 3-D Blockbusters Screwed Indie Horror The Hole (Plus: Whatever Happened To Omri Katz?)". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sorry, Book, Writing

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• Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

  Peter Drucker

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

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• And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Fire, Editing And Writing, Shows

  Arthur Plotnik (1984). “The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

  Tommy Lee

  Computer, Recording Studio, Engineers

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• This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Stupidity

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• I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

  Nia Vardalos

  Writing, Ideas, Cards

  "TriBeCa Interview: My Life In Ruins with Nia Vardalos". Interview with Matthew-Lee Erlbach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2009.

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