Top 40 Edits Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Edits

#1. This is my life ... my story ... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make.

Steve Maraboli

#2. In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

Andrew McCarthy

#3. This is the left hemisphere confabulating. It does this for all of us, every waking moment. It edits our conscious experiences, makes them comprehensible and palatable. It's the brain's spin-doctor.

Paul Broks

#4. I can't stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

Robin Sloan

#5. A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.

Jarod Kintz

#6. For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.

Kathryn Stockett

#7. To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

Kaskade

#8. I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

Vanilla Ice

#9. Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.

James Arthur

#10. I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

Rick Moranis

#11. Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

Tibor Kalman

#12. Yeah. When I was in high school I used to do stupid video edits. I would hook-up two VCRs or three VCRs and do film edits for the basketball team and stuff like that because I was always just into doing that.

Jesse Lacey

#13. The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

Agona Apell

#14. Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Donald Davis

#15. Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

Wanda Sykes

#16. I can get it right on the page," Carly told him. "Real life has no edits."
from THE VOICES OF ANGELS

Peggy Jaeger

#17. A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

Shawn Amos

#18. I haven't done any major filming with a major production company yet, but I've definitely done a lot of filming with a lot of professionals, filmers, and film little edits and put them up online. But I would definitely say that slope style skiers are entertainers as much as they are athletes.

Nick Goepper

#19. I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing their differently colored cursors moving around the screen, typing new words and making edits in real time. It was an epiphany.

Ian Lamont

#20. One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.

Justus Kohncke

#21. When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Philip Roth

#22. I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.

Damian Barr

#23. The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

Stanley Kunitz

#24. As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#25. I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.

Tyler Oakley

#26. 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.

Ann Zwinger

#27. After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

Kyle Cassie

#28. In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

Mark Helprin

#29. The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#30. Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

Kris Rafferty