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Quote Left A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. Quote Right
Quote Left If a member of your family misbehaves and embarrasses you, you cannot do anything about it. I wish life were an editing room where one could sit and edit all those embarrassing moments away. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too qui... Quote Right
Quote Left I wanted Death to talk in a way that humans don't speak. One thing I stood by [in the editing process] was when Death says things like 'the trees who stood' or 'the sky who was this color.' He refers to the sky and the trees and the clouds as though they're colleagues. Quote Right
Quote Left We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. Quote Right
Quote Left David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Editing

Quote Left Editing, an anal attempt — at something unintended Quote Right
Quote Left Mediocre writing spawns editing — The Great Works born unchanged. Quote Right
Quote Left Poets may labor from sun to sun, but their editor's work is never done. (Keywords: poets, poems, poetry, edit, editor, editing) Quote Right
Quote Left "'Choices' are the tokens that take us to places perhaps we never wished we'd visited, but we leave with greater knowledge and a firmer and clearer understanding of ourselves and the truth of it all. We are a book of life constantly re-editing our pages and at the root of it all, we rely on our internal compass - for some, this is an elusive marker to locate, but eventually it is found. Never judge a book by its cover." Quote Right
Quote Left "'Choices' are the tokens that take us to places perhaps we never wished we'd visited, but we leave with greater knowledge and a firmer and clearer understanding of ourselves and the truth of it all. We are a book of life constantly re-editing our pages and at the root of it all, we rely on our internal compass - for some, this is an elusive marker to locate, but eventually it is found. Never judge a book by its cover." LadyLabyrinth (aka Leanne Lovejoy-Burton). Quote Right
Quote Left Living off my creativity without crediting is like an act of vampirism - royally. Quote Right

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