#edit

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate. ↗

— Jet Li

#even #everywhere #go #i #meditate

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. ↗

— Maya Lin

#convey #down #editing #goal #i

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me! ↗

— Laura Linney

#credit #father #give #had #him

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#edit #go #important #important thing #learn

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#beautiful thing #down #editor #get #hand

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#credited #everybody #faults #him #his

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#another #credit #due #explorer #fortunate

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#call #credit #good #his #never

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#edit #excluded #final #marriage #michael

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#care #edition #first #i #natural