Editing Quotes - Page 22

• When you catch an adjective, kill it.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Plain Language, Adjectives

  Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (1981). “The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Random House Value Pub

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• After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

  Lynne Truss

  Jobs, Years, Editors

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• LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Independence, Newspapers

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

  Donald Barthelme

  Prayer, Writing, Self

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• Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

  Hunter Hayes

  Price Tag, Needs, Looks

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• I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

  Jonas Mekas

  Jobs, New York, Culture

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

  Joseph Kanon

  Perfect, Want

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• Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

  Sarah Kay

  Hard Work, Artist, Skills

  "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?

  Dan Rather

  One Direction, Cameras, Politics

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• It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

  Michael Kenna

  Running, Photography, Thinking

  Interview with Brooks Jensen, www.michaelkenna.net. October 2003.

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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, Years

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• Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.

  Laura Miller

  Mistake, Writing, Organization

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• The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  Julie Powell

  Writing, Sisterhood, Skulls

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• Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Whining, Structure

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• Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Writing, Different, Today

  Henry Seidel Canby (1926). “Better Writing”

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• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Self, Voice, Special

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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• You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, Keys

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• I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

  Nicole Eggert

  Regret, Writing, Men

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• Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.

  Anna Wintour

  Lying, Long, Culture

  "Here's the Kanye West and Kim Kardashian 'Vogue' Cover and a Behind the Scenes Video With North West" by James Harris, www.complex.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Anyone who can not write should.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Editors, Should

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• Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Biblical, Names

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.28, Penguin

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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, Issues, Looks

  "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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