Quotes about edit
editorial god literary lowly novelist supreme trying
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
edited marshall rob
The way Rob Marshall has edited this movie, you can't just go in there and say take this out or take that out. It was all constructed so intricately. Craig Zadan
editing failure good noble tried work
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.' Spike Jonze
editor sports
As a New York-based sports editor put it to me, E. B. White
editorial facts persuade using writer
As an editorial writer you are a reporter, using the facts to persuade as well as inform, Michael Gartner
editors earth dirt
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Chris DiBona
editors horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors stuff publishers
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. Christopher Hitchens
editing together pieces
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. Christian Marclay
editing long sitting
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
editors biographies pleasure
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. George Plimpton
editing car racing
Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face. Jeremy Clarkson
editors devil journalism
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.] Jean de La Fontaine
editors devil pay
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
editors theatre acting
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. Jean Cocteau
editing official prayer
I don't think any official should be editing prayer.
edition late wolf worried
I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Jan Egeland
editors lunch giving
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. Jerry Pournelle
editing philadelphia worry
Most of my material is , it doesn't necessarily involve a lot of editing. So even the show with the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, I don't have to worry about some of the material being inappropriate. Jim Gaffigan
editor objective publish
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum. David Bergen
editing five huge since
Editing is going to be a huge part since we're only being graded for five minutes.
edit jokes ready work
Big time, ... Im always ready for TV. I dont have to edit my jokes when you work clean, you can work anywhere. Gabriel Iglesias
editors libertarian wheat
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. Adlai Stevenson
editor excellent meddle needs perfect political serve shall term
I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect Mark Twain
editor job looks royalties though
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
editing process word written
The Review's labyrinthine editing process does to the written word what the Cuisinart does to broccoli.
editing agonizing needs
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. Mort Sahl
editors voting louisville
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. Rand Paul
editing waiting watches
Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting. Shane Carruth
editors careers tree
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter. Michael Pollan
editing color purple
My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will. Scott Glenn
editing trying ongoing
Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix. Lorrie Moore
editors people priests
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. Michael D. Higgins