Quotes About Editors Editing

#1. My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

Diane Abbott

#2. I think you either have chemistry or you don't. If you could create chemistry in the editing room then there would be no films without chemistry, obviously, because there are a lot of good editors out there who'd be able to take care of that then if that's how it really worked.

Robert Schwentke

#3. He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.

Eli Brown

#4. Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.

Charles M. Schulz

#5. Happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

#6. Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.

Frank Black

#7. The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Judith Thurman

#8. The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.

Julie Delpy

#9. Everyone needs an editor.

Timothy Foote

#10. Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Life was a trade-off between loneliness and inevitable peaks of joy or agony.

Karen Traviss

#12. The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

George Carlin

#13. I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

Cat Deeley

#14. He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

#15. When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.

Dolph Lundgren

#16. As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

Action Bronson

#17. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Rose Schneiderman

#18. Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

Terry McDonell

#19. I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

Lydia Davis

#20. Anyone who can not write should.

Harlan Ellison

#21. Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Tiffany Madison

#23. Years working at a newspaper. You learn to write fast and reasonably good and in a manner which does not require substantial editing. Or your editors and copyeditors stab you to death and hang your corpse in the newsroom as a warning to the other staff writers.

John Scalzi

#24. And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what ... to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

Nicholas Stoller

#25. Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Henry David Thoreau

#26. Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.

E. Nesbit

#27. Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Gene Fowler

#28. I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

John Hyams

#29. I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.

Neil Gaiman

#30. There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

#31. When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

Confucius