Editing Fiction Quotes

#1. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

Diane Duane

#2. I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

Kevin J. Anderson

#3. Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can't do it any longer.

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. My breakfast consists of two cappuccinos and maybe a toasted English muffin, and that's pretty much it for me unless I decide to go a little more upscale, and then I'll have scrambled eggs.

Kyle MacLachlan

#5. Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.

Joan Silber

#6. The final argument of kings

Louis XIV

#7. Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Stephanie Roberts

#8. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers.

C. G. Jung

#9. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Regina Brett

#10. You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing ...

Barbara Degenevieve

#11. In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

Susi Moore

#12. Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

Leos Carax

#13. Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

Isabel Allende

#14. I was never okay but that wasn't for then or ever, for him or anyone. It was just what it was and it was all for me.

Kristen Ashley

#15. repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.

- except maybe yourself.

Amanda Lovelace

#16. Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

Joel Osteen

#17. For if we know perfect beauty, with our eyes and with our ears, even for a second, we'll come that tiny bit closer to being it ourselves.

Richard Harvell

#18. When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson

#19. I don't want to even think about what kind of creatures could be lurking out there in the dark in the middle of the sticks. Probably the same ones lurking around during the day, but I've learned that dangerous things like to wait till night to surface, when you can't see the coming.

Carolee Dean

#20. I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

Gale Anne Hurd