editing

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

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

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

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god._

If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...

Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.

[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don__ exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, __etouching artists_ conspire to __elp_ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age...By now readers have no idea what a real woman__ 60 year old face looks like in print because it__ made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they__e comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.

I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?

Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

A lot can change in the editing room.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

My life needs editing.

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.